In the field this is the idea of General Intilligence versus narrow intelligence.
Alexa, for example, is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence. It can process speech and then follow different scripts with instructions derived from that speech, but it often fails comically so you as the human have to talk to it just right for it to work. Not too different from a verbal command line.
Meanwhile a human personal assistant has general intelligence. You can just tell them what you want and they can understand and figure it out.
These are just skills. No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence or that such intelligences exist, including oft-quoted emotional intelligence.
> No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence
This isn't true. We have overwhelming evidence that these "skills" originate in different parts of the brain in all humans and if we disable those parts, those "skills" disappear. Those parts of the brain are unique and have their own structures. There is strong evidence that they require unique "hardware" and as such, are a "special kind of intelligence".
In the field this is the idea of General Intilligence versus narrow intelligence.
Alexa, for example, is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence. It can process speech and then follow different scripts with instructions derived from that speech, but it often fails comically so you as the human have to talk to it just right for it to work. Not too different from a verbal command line.
Meanwhile a human personal assistant has general intelligence. You can just tell them what you want and they can understand and figure it out.
> Alexa, for example, is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence [...] often fails comically
I'd venture that your coda nullifies the "Intelligence" part thoroughly and completely. She's an "Artificial Smart Assistant", at best.
The problem is we have no useful definition for intelligence and therefore no way useful metric to measure.
> What does multi-dimensional even mean, in the context of intelligence?
Emotional
Logical
Intuitive
Social
Computational
Instinctive
Sexual
Experiential
and I can keep going, but you should get the point.
These are just skills. No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence or that such intelligences exist, including oft-quoted emotional intelligence.
> No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence
This isn't true. We have overwhelming evidence that these "skills" originate in different parts of the brain in all humans and if we disable those parts, those "skills" disappear. Those parts of the brain are unique and have their own structures. There is strong evidence that they require unique "hardware" and as such, are a "special kind of intelligence".
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