I think human-level intelligence is a useful metric in its own right, but it's not as though humans necessarily hit some arbitrary "general" threshold either (n

I think human-level intelligence is a useful metric in its own right, but it's not as though humans necessarily hit some arbitrary "general" threshold either (none of us can do tasks that are trivial for computers, like remembering one million digits with perfect fidelity or calculating the millionth digit of pi). I think any goalposts are only useful for answering specific questions: - What practical problems can open-ended intelligence-mimicry solve? - Will solving those problems potentially put humans out of work (and if so is that good, and either way what should be done about that, if anything?) - Might this technology (or its perception) kick off a military arms race? - Can these alien intelligences become clever enough to pursue goals in contraction of human well-being, or even the intent of their creators? The intrinsic "isness" of intelligence categories is about as interesting as "whether a submarine can swim".