By perfecting an interface that is much better suited to home use — the determined yell! — Amazon seems on the verge of building something like Iron Man's Jarvis, the artificial-intelligence brain at the center of all your household activities.
Now some 40,000 members of the educated elite have signed a petition that accuses the government of waging "war on intelligence" -- brain power, that is, not spying.
He said the United States and India "will fight terrorism together," adding, "India has got a fantastic ability to grow, because her greatest export is intelligence and brain power".
It turns out that another variable has an even higher correlation with intelligence than brain size — time to maturity, or weaning time.
If each cognitive task calls on its own seat of intelligence, different brain regions should activate depending on the task.
We can trace the history of the skeletal system, the digestive organs, sensory and immune systems, and of course, the history of what we really mean by intelligence: the brain and nervous system.
The ultimate success of biology-inspired approaches seems more certain, since they can progress by piecemeal reverse-engineering of the one physical system already known to be capable of general intelligence: the brain.
We arbitrarily exclude from the definition of intelligence higher brain functions in other animals.
The overall theme is consciousness, with episodes showing the spooky side of everything from artificial intelligence to brain implants, dating apps, and video games.
Sex differences in the relationship between general intelligence and brain structure are a topic of increasing research interest.
