Comment by isomorphic_duck
10 days ago
You have to understand that the median human is terrible at (almost) everything. Humans, the only examples of general intelligence we know, are economically valuable precisely because they can train themselves to specialise at a (relatively) narrow task over time. You don’t measure how good a coding model is by how well it programs relative to Doctors, or how well it can prove theorems relative to baristas, or how well it can write coherent novels relative to programmers. That would be a dumb metric.
> Humans, the only examples of general intelligence we know
Our intelligence only seems "general" to us, because we're viewing it through our own eyes. Our "intelligence" is specialized to our survival, and we're terrible at most tasks outside that scope.
We operate and think about subjects like Higher Topos Theory, Information Geometry and Algebraic Topology, which are several layers of abstractions removed from anything that can be termed as a skill “specialised to our survival”.