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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:46AM (#11272827)
>> what is your gauge for superhuman if not some type of competition?

To be honest- I don't have one. My intuition is that we can't have a good definition of "superhuman intelligence" because having one would require us to demonstrate superhuman intelligence ourselves. Which is obviously a contradiction.

Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by draaglom on Saturday March 12, 2016 @12:13PM (#11273566)
Intuitively, a calculator is not superhuman. A person who could do mental arithmetic as well as a calculator? That would seem to be superhuman. If you find out that they were using a calculator under the table the whole time, they're not superhuman any more.

So I think the word "superhuman" must imply a fair competition, in the sense that the participants are competing using comparable approaches. For some definition of comparable.