> If bees can do this, how smart are we really? Well, bees don't invent controlled experiments to test our symbolic reasoning, think through the results, form

> If bees can do this, how smart are we really? Well, bees don't invent controlled experiments to test our symbolic reasoning, think through the results, form philosophical questions using arbitrarily complex language structures, and post them on the own worldwide information-sharing networks they invented. So I'd say there's a pretty big gap. > Compared to generally intelligent AI or extraterrestrials, the difference between our intelligence and a bees might not be much. Assuming that intelligence can be quantified, and that extremely higher values are physically possible, yes, the orders-of-magnitude difference between bees and humans might theoretically be dwarfed by some other comparison. Just like the size difference between a grain of sand and a mountain is not significant compared with the difference between the mountain and the Milky Way. But it's still a massive (get it?) difference.