I was listening to an AI expert and he was explaining that the way they trained chat GPT to be so verbally intelligent, was to get it to predict the next word in every sentence ever written or scanned on to the internet. Whenever their predictions were wrong, they would adjust their algorithm to mathematically improve their predictive accuracy and after thousands of hours of brute trial and error, they were able to produce AIs that could score above 150 on some verbal IQ tests.
However intelligence is more than just verbal acumen; it’s the ability to adapt–to take whatever situation you’re in and turn it around to your advantage. Right now I am using my verbal skills to exploit social media, but through most of my day I relied on non-verbal skills like cooking dinner, navigating the remote control etc. Indeed over 99.999999999999999% of the universe doesn’t even have people of any other linguistic entity, so the true ability to adapt any situation is arguably skewed in a non-verbal direction. Indeed it’s even been argued that one reason men have larger brains than women despite having similar full-scale IQs, is that men have higher spatial IQ which requires more processing power, because as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Another group with high spatial IQ is East Asians, and despite having the highest spatial IQs on Earth, they are remarkably humble about their intelligence. “We might be good at video games,” they will tell me, “but the Caucasoids, the whites, the Jews, the South Asians; they created great literature” which gives them a certain cachet in a World that worships the written words and has disdain for nerdy tech types.
However as AI continues to make progress in verbal ability, verbal ability will be seen as cheap and robotic. According to one of the grandfathers of the AI movement, the problem with creating a truly intelligent AI is even though they can increase verbal IQ by training AIs to predict the next word in any sentence, you can’t train AI to predict the next picture in any video. The reason is there are only 165,000 words in the English language, but the number of distinct images is seemingly infinite so no amount of machine learning can train them to predict it, because how do you assign useful probabilities to images that only occur once in infinity.
Once East Asians realize they are the only race that can’t have their genius automized by computers, they may start regarding non-East Asians as genetically inferior. Just as Caucasoids spent centuries calling tropical ancestry people by sub-human terms like “monkey”, East Asians might start dehumanizing Caucasoids as “chat bots”.
This may even lead to physical confrontations as foreshadowed by this scene from the Netflix series Kobra Kai in which an East Asian is rejected from a fraternity and doesn’t take it well:
Pumpkin Person 