Yet despite its rapid development, intelligence forecasting remained a precarious trade.
That doesn't mean they aren't intelligent, and in the postmodern age, when cultures cross-germinate in rapid fashion, defining intelligence according to one's familiarity with a specific cultural domain is behind the times.
Unfortunately, we can't make similarly rapid assessments of intelligence or integrity.
The unusual thing about superintelligence is that we do not know if rapid and powerful intelligence explosions are possible: maybe our current civilisation as a whole is improving itself at the fastest possible rate.
In 1800, Wordsworth, in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, denounced the corruption of sensibility produced by "the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies".
The twins and available siblings were given an extensive battery of assessments of reading, spelling, phonology, orthography, rapid naming, and intelligence.
The report said that rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will bring about significant changes to the labour market.
Not according to killer robot expert Bonnie Docherty of Harvard University, who wrote recently that military robots with the ability to fire on targets independently of human control are swiftly moving towards reality thanks to rapid improvements in artificial intelligence.
Five major technology companies said Wednesday that they had created an organization to set the ground rules for protecting humans — and their jobs — in the face of rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
The rapid expansion of the intelligence bureaucracy has been under particular scrutiny this week, with a series of articles in The Washington Post detailing the growth in spending on spy programs since the Sept. 11 attacks.
