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superintelligence

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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