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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 August 2014 12:56:51PM *  1 point [-]

Humans are known to have correlations between their different types of intelligence (the supposed "g"). But this seems to no be a genuine general intelligence (eg a mathematician using maths to successfully model human relations), but a correlation of specialised submodules. That correlation need not exist for AIs.