When Does Intelligence Peak?
Maybe that’s not even the right question.
Beautiful Minds, Scientific American
Topics: Cognitive Development Intelligence Knowledge Purpose Scott Barry Kaufman Wisdom
Are Intellectuals Suffering a Crisis of Meaning?
What is the relationship between intellectual giftedness and meaning in life?
Topics: Intelligence Meaning Success
We Analyzed 16,625 Papers to Figure Out Where AI Is Headed Next
Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Intelligence Learning Technology
Can Man Ever Build a Mind?
Artificial intelligence has problems. The biggest is that brains are nothing like computers.
Financial Times
Can Intelligence Buy You Happiness?
New research suggests that IQ leads to greater well-being by enabling one to acquire the financial and educational means necessary to live a better life.
Topics: Emotion Happiness Intelligence
This Is When AI’s Top Researchers Think Artificial General Intelligence Will Be Achieved
Short answer: maybe within our lifetimes, but don’t hold out.
The Verge
People’s Notions of a Perfect Life Are Surprisingly Modest
Data suggest that people have much more complex, blended notions of perfection, ones that embrace both light and dark. Interestingly, the ratings of perfection were more modest in countries that had traditions of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Happiness Intelligence Longevity
The Information of Intelligence
Defining intelligence anywhere in the universe is tricky, but there’s one thing that might provide a clue.
Scientific American
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Information Intelligence
What If ET Is an AI?
After centuries searching for extraterrestrial life, we might find that first contact is not with organic creatures at all.
Aeon
Topics: Caleb Scharf Extraterrestrial Life Intelligence
Why Alien ‘Life’ May Be Weirder Than We Imagine
Alien life has been a mainstay and fascination of science fiction, but who — or what — might actually be out there: biological life, artificial intelligence, or some combination of both?
World Science Festival
Topics: Exoplanets Extraterrestrial Life Habitability Intelligence
Will Self-Taught Robots Be the End of Us?
Are we creating the instruments of our own destruction or exciting tools for our future survival?
Topics: Consciousness Creativity Intelligence Robots
Tiny Brains of Extinct Human Relative Had Complex Features
Scientists studying skull fragments from the extinct human relative recently discovered in South Africa suggest that it may have exhibited complex behavior.
Topics: Human Evolution Intelligence
The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know
We all might be a bit better off by learning to say “I disagree with myself” every now and then.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Intellectual Humility Intelligence Learning
How to Get Empowered, Not Overpowered, by AI
Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we’re restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence.
TED
Topics: Intelligence Max Tegmark Robots Technology Wisdom
Strong-Willed Chimps Reveal Evolutionary Origins of Human Willpower
Study on some very disciplined chimpanzees suggests that our ability to exercise restraint has much deeper evolutionary roots than our worsening smartphone addictions may suggest.
Inverse
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Intelligence Self-Control Willpower
Culture and the Mind: A New Theory of Human Intelligence
What role might culture play in intelligence? And how does human culture differ from culture found in other animals?
Science Weekly, The Guardian
Topics: Animal Studies Cultural Evolution Human Uniqueness Intelligence Kevin Laland Language Social Learning
Studies Link Intellectual Humility With Openness to Other Viewpoints
Promisingly, early findings suggest that it may be possible to foster intellectual humility relatively easily, as least over the short term.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Belief Intellectual Humility Intelligence Knowledge
Inside The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
As developers design machines that teach themselves, questions remain over humans’ ability to effectively interact with artificially intelligent computers.
The State of Things, WUNC
Topics: Ethics Intelligence Kurt Gray Learning Morality Robots Technology
Daydreaming May, In Fact, Be a Sign of Greater Intelligence
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently published a study in the journal Neuropsychologia that suggested a strong correlation between a person’s tendency to daydream and the strength and efficiency of their brains.
Quartz
Topics: Creativity Intelligence
How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Cognition Empathy Intelligence Knowledge Technology Trust
New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
A new idea called the “information bottleneck” is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Intelligence Learning
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