If AI just regurgitates and recombines human knowledge, does that make it dumber than us? Not necessarily because we humans also just regurgitates and recombine what we’ve learned from other humans. Has even the most brilliant human ever discovered anything that is not in some way a synthesis of what other humans or pre-humans already knew?

But then how will we know when AI is smarter than us? When it beats us on IQ tests? It already does in the skills it’s been trained on like verbal and mathematical reasoning but scores poorly in many other tasks. But then even the dumbest of humans would score high on an IQ test if endlessly trained. So how will we know when AI is truly smarter than us, and it’s not just an artifact of teaching to the test or mirroring our own intelligence back at us? This very brief video will tell you.