Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter

Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by whimsicalism on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:16PM (#26643147)

> Once there’s a person with an I.Q. of, say, 300, one of the problems this person can solve is how to convert a person with an I.Q. of 300 into a person with an I.Q. of 350. And then a person with an I.Q. of 350 will be able to solve the more difficult problem of converting a person with an I.Q. of 350 into a person with an I.Q. of 400. And so forth.

with strawmen like these, who even needs a debate?

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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by _rpd on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:36PM (#26643243)

Once you have an AI with a human approximate general intelligence, the ability to instantiate it thousands of times and/or run it at thousands of times 'baseline' speed to explore a problem space is going to look like a big IQ boost.

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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by coldtea on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:14AM (#26645447)

9 pregnant women can't produce a baby in 1 month.

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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by _rpd on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:39AM (#26647137)

I don’t think this analogy is helpful. If an IQ 110 AI can research 10^6 person-hours for each IQ 110 person-hour, the results are going to look like a qualitative difference (i.e., higher IQ). That said, I do think that some problem spaces require ‘true’ IQ advances to address - insight vs. bruteforce.

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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by m463 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:43AM (#26643903)

One fundamental flaw here is that IQ is a comparison based on a bell curve of the population.

So the way to have a 300 IQ would be to sandbag the rest of the world. Give them all smartphones for instance (or irrigate their crops with brawndo)

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