I don't go looking for trouble, so I had not realized until now that people are confidently saying that such-and-such an "AI" has some particular level of IQ, apparently as measured by the program's performance in some or another Intelligence Test...
From this is inferred that such-and-such an "AI" has a measured intelligence in (say) the top 10%, or 5%, or 0.01% of the UK population, or whatever...
From which it is stated as a solid objective fact that "AI" is already at "genius level" IQ and will soon surpass all human capability...
After which comes various pseudo-concerned hand-wringings of the plight of human beings in this world where "AI" has inetellectual mastery; or else a techno-triumphalism asserting that humans must now "make way for the rule of machines" etc.
But this is utter nonsense.
That it is nonsense really ought to be obvious.
If people can't realize this, then I'm afraid they are putty in the hands of those who strategize to destroy us - worse, they are complicit in their own proximate degradation and ultimate damnation.
I feel embarrassed at having to explain (and it is seldom possible to explain the really obvious); but here goes...
"AI" has no "IQ", because it has no intelligence.
None At All.
Computers don't have intelligence.
It is reasonable, and has been done, to measure using IQ tests (specially devised) the comparative intelligence of chimpanzees, or dogs, or other animals - because animals are living beings, and beings have intelligence...
But not computers, because computers don't have intelligence.
Intelligence (i.e. "general intelligence" or "g") is an inferred underlying attribute behind all cognitive abilities - and IQ tests infer this from one or a range of cognitive tests used to put people into a rank order - to which the IQ number is applied on the basis of an assumed normal distribution.
The test is not the intelligence, it is just a way of ranking the intelligence among beings with intelligence.
The IQ test score does not mean anything at all, of itself....
After all, if a person had been provided with a cheat sheet containing all the answers to an IQ test, then the test would would not be measuring intelligence, would it?
Correct answers are not the ability, are they?
An "AI" doing an IQ test is just an elaborate cheat sheet.
Computerized cheating to provide the right answers to a cognitive test is not intelligence.
The validity of an IQ test as a measure of intelligence depends on the fact that the person (or other being) doing the test is actually working it out, by using their intelligence-correlated cognitive abilities.
Computer mechanisms for answering IQ test papers have nothing to do with intelligence - computers don't think; they are nothing-but cheat-sheets when it comes to intelligence testing.
The only intelligence involved in "AI"-cheats on IQ testing; is that of humans; who are needed to provide the computer with the right answers - and programmers who engineer the algorithms for matching the right answers to the test questions.
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