Comment by tgrowazay
1 day ago
Some people downvoting you, but I think it is a valuable illustration of IQ gap.
And chances are that humanity at large will be soon trying to follow ai inventions and discoveries not unlike your dog follows your Python code.
I recently saw a photo of an alligator lying on top of a pool floatie shaped like an alligator. That alligator could be trained in every way possible for ten years, and never ever recognize the mutual resemblance.
Like you, I wonder if we will soon cross the boundary where we are the alligator.
(I suspect that we have been the alligator all along, outside the context of AI.)
I really don’t think IQ has much to do with it. Understanding this stuff is like a skill you practice. Yes, granted, if you had a low IQ your chances of ever understanding it goes down, if you have a high IQ maybe you can gain the prerequisite understanding faster.
A lot of maths is about both being able to wrap your head around hard problems and gaining the prerequisite knowledge to make it easier to do so.
Math is literally the most g-loaded thing there is.
IQ limits your rate of gaining the prerequisite knowledge creating a lifetime ceiling.
For most of their lives, most people have a rate of 0 learning because they aren't even trying to learn it.