#FIB-RW-23000887Reading & Writing: Fill in the BlanksCore & AcademicHard

Super intelligence

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Superintelligence is any intellect that vastly outperforms the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. This definition leaves open how the superintelligence [blank] - it could be in a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue, or something else. In this definition, Deep Blue is not a superintelligence, since it is only smart within one narrow domain chess, and even there it is not vastly superior [blank] the best humans. Entities such as corporations or the scientific community are not superintelligence either. Although they can perform a number of intellectual feats [blank] which no individual human is capable of, they are not sufficiently integrated to count as "intellects", and there are many fields [blank] they perform much worse than single humans. For example, you cannot have a real-time conversation with "the scientific community".

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Superintelligence is any intellect that vastly outperforms the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. This definition leaves open how the superintelligence is implemented - it could be in a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue, or something else. In this definition, Deep Blue is not a superintelligence, since it is only smart within one narrow domain chess, and even there it is not vastly superior to the best humans. Entities such as corporations or the scientific community are not superintelligence either. Although they can perform a number of intellectual feats of which no individual human is capable of, they are not sufficiently integrated to count as "intellects", and there are many fields in which they perform much worse than single humans. For example, you cannot have a real-time conversation with "the scientific community".
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