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> Considering that IQ tests have been widely considered as a measure of intelligence, we think it is worth making further investigations whether we can develop
by one-more-minute 11y ago
> Considering that IQ tests have been widely considered as
a measure of intelligence, we think it is worth making further
investigations whether we can develop an agent that
can beat human on solving IQ tests ... we could be a further step closer to the true human intelligence.
This is a bit like saying, "the best runners tend to be pretty tall, and we've made a robot which is really tall – so running robots are just around the corner."
IQ tests certainly correlate well with intelligence (in humans), but they're a metric, not the thing itself. Another metric would be mental arithmetic; people who can do sums quickly tend to be pretty smart, but that doesn't mean that calculators are a step away from super-intelligences.
Interesting and cool work but let's be careful in the interpretation (and remember that people said the same things about chess playing not that long ago).
- Jimmy 11y agoPeople fall victim to this fallacy in their own thinking all the time. They want to get good at doing X, but task Y is a lot easier and success at Y is mildly correlated with success at X, so they start practicing Y instead of X. It's the reason why things like "brain games" are so popular. In reality, people's time would almost always be better spent just practicing the primary task they want to be good at. That being said, making an AI that does better on IQ tests than humans is a rather interesting and worthwhile endeavor.