timtyler comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kmeme 04 August 2010 11:16:59AM -1 points [-]

Actually by "different levels of intelligence" I meant your point that humans themselves have very different levels of intelligence, one from the other. That "human-level AI" is a very broad target, not a narrow one.

I've never seen it discussed does an AI require more computation to think about quantum physics than to think about what order to pick up items in the grocery store? How about training time? Is it a little more or orders of magnitude more? I don't think it is known.

Comment author: timtyler 04 August 2010 11:40:36AM *  2 points [-]

Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life - and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump of well people in the middle, though - where intelligence is not so widely distributed.

The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of that range will be gradually swallowed up.