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What’s Twice as Smart as 100 IQ?
This Is NOT a Trivial Question and Has Ramifications
The obvious answer is 200 IQ. But, this is false. Why? It’s because we cannot meaningfully ratio two IQ scores because there isn’t a natural zero.
If Sally has one apple, and Sam has two apples, we can say Sam has twice as many apples as Sally because the count of zero apples means no apples. When we have a natural zero like this, we can take ratios meaningfully.
This fails when we try it for quantities like IQ because there isn’t a natural zero. What does an IQ of zero mean — no intelligence? No, it doesn’t mean that. It still means low intelligence. Theoretically, even negative IQ scores represent some positive amount of intelligence as weird as that may sound.
So, getting to the AI being a billion times smarter than us, it doesn’t mean AI has an IQ of a hundred billion (which would be practically omniscient I would say). No, we don’t even have a calculation for telling us what numerical value is required for something to be a billion times smarter than we are.
So, I find it a bit off-putting that these high level people make a nonsense claim that AI will be a billion times smarter than we are at the Technological Singularity. It smacks to me of the same frightening power as religion’s Hellfire and Brimstone imagery. Both are frightening because both cannot be proved, and both can convince people who ordinarily might see such a ruse couched in actually sensical terms.
Thus, I cry foul to the power elite who want to frighten us little folk without evidence just like religion does.
Thanks for reading me.
