[pkoird]

Precisely. People don't realize that it's all numbers. Given average IQ of people involved in a project is 140, an AI with an IQ of 150 can replicate each and every such individuals in the pipeline. People saying AI can't do this or AI can't do that should come to terms with the fact that this IQ gap is monotonously increasing.

[fn-mote]

This is bizarre to me on so many fronts.

1: When was the last time you worked on a project where you thought the average IQ was 140? I don’t even think I have worked on a project where the maximum IQ was 140.

2: Who thinks the IQ of people on the project determines its success? There’s so much more to it than just “high capability team members” (to give IQ a generous interpretation).

3: (math joke) A sequence like (AI IQ - Human IQ) can be negative and monotonicly increasing and still never reach 0.

[davebren]

Pattern matching against millions of IQ test questions from a training set in order to score 150 on an IQ test doesn't give you an intelligence equivalent to 150.

[OccamsMirror]

Funnily enough, though, I think it makes dumb people dumber.

[icedchai]

I agree. Inexperienced people (not necessarily "dumb") are likely to accept everything at face value, not apply critical thinking skills, and not even check the AI generated output.

[tovej]

An AI does not have an IQ.

[tptacek]

Sure it does. IQ is simply a measure of performance on an IQ test. A simple Python loop around Google search in 2012 had an IQ.

[tovej]

IQ is a (biased) proxy measure for human intelligence. It is not a meaningful measure when applied to a computer system.

[tptacek]

What IQ "means" is separable from what it is. IQ is a measure of performance on IQ tests. That's literally what it is. If a computer system can complete IQ tests, it has an IQ.

The issue is that IQ means less than you want it to.

[tovej]

I don't want IQ to mean anything. pkoird clearly wants it to mean something.

IQ is a terribly flawed measure of human intelligence. But it measures nothing when you apply an LLM that contains multiple IQ tests in its corpus. IQ is deeply flawed, but the point is not to "measure performance on IQ tests". If someone cheats on an IQ test and scores 200, no reasonable person would say they have 200 IQ.

[tonyedgecombe]

Monotonically although I do find the discourse on AI rather monotonous.