What messy about this is figuring out exactly how to define intelligence, and what it really means to be more intelligent than someone. If somebody said that an

What messy about this is figuring out exactly how to define intelligence, and what it really means to be more intelligent than someone. If somebody said that an AI was more intelligent than the most intelligent human, then how would you figure out if that was true? If it was true, what exactly would this AI be able to do that the human couldn't do? How does a difference in the level of intelligence of a particular entity compare to the effective intelligence of having lots of less intelligent entities? Having lots of people means that you can apply intelligence towards a lot of tasks, but perhaps all of them together will never come up with something that a greater intelligence could come up with. Thinking about it, it seems to me that you have to apply it against an actual difficult task. Take a task like "build a power-producing fusion reactor" that nobody knows how to do yet. Would we be able to figure out how to do that faster if there was some superior intelligence applied to it? Or does the huge number of engineering problems associated with building such a thing respond better to a large number of more ordinary intelligence?