Superintelligence

Quick meaning: Superintelligence is a noun meaning (futurology, artificial intelligence) Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.

Meaning

(futurology, artificial intelligence) Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.

Example Sentences

The lesson of this little story is that if and when human-level AI is achieved, superintelligence will soon follow. […] What we have in this story seems to be a form of collective superintelligence.

Fundamentally, people like Mr. Altman, the Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei and countless other tech leaders and investors had put far too much faith into a speculative and unproven hypothesis called scaling: the idea that training A.I. models on ever more data and using ever more hardware would eventually lead to A.G.I. or even a superintelligence that surpasses humans.

On Thursday, Meta unveiled a $14.3 billion investment and partnership that will be the core of a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to the pursuit of “superintelligence,” a swing-for-the-fences effort in the global technology race. […] Silicon Valley leaders are now talking about building superintelligence, which would be even more powerful than A.G.I. It, too, is a loosely defined term, but generally refers to a machine that is more powerful than the human brain.

Word Forms

• superintelligences

Synonyms for superintelligence

Depending on context, synonyms include hyperintelligence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include superbrain, hyperintelligence, suprahumanity, superintellect, supergenius, superhumanness.

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