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Why IQ is a poor test for AI


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently referred to AI as having 'IQ.' But IQ tests are a poor measure of AI performance, experts says.

“It can be very tempting to use the same measures we use for humans to describe capabilities or progress, but this is like comparing apples with oranges,” Sandra Wachter, a researcher studying tech and regulation at Oxford, told TechCrunch. “When I learn something, I don’t get it piped into my brain with perfect clarity 1 million times, unlike AI, and I can’t process it with no noise or signal loss, either.” “When I solve a mathematics problem, my brain is also contending with its ability to read the words on the page correctly, to not think about the shopping I need to do on the way home, or if it’s too cold in the room right now.

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