superintelligence

plural superintelligences

1. countableuncountableIntelligence far above normal human intelligence.

   It might be possible that super-intelligence from another planet had invented a craft able to move at such a volition.

   1935 September 26, Barrington Beverley, “The Space Raiders”, in The Labor Daily, Sydney, page 9, column 1

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   It means pretence, vulgarity, assumption, and the highest altitude of the ridiculous; also gilded ignorance, mock patriotism, wire-pulling, successful knavery. It also claims "super-intelligence, and all the cardinal virtues." There you have the foreign trade party and their missions.

   1905 December 20, The Bendigo Independent, Victoria, page 4, column 2

   Seeing that the white man, poor wretch, according to that dictum (in very extreme probability) has no rightful claim to any country; for when super-intelligence through evolution (the power that drew the colour lines for a good, wise, and sufficient purpose, notwithstanding that some men presume to know better than the All-Wise) produced the white man because of the inability of any coloured man TO FULFIL MAN'S DESTINY, all parts of the earth were already occupied by the earlier colored man.

   1914 February 21, The Truth, Perth, page 8, column 2

   "What will win the Melbourne Cup?" Mr. George Robot was asked yesterday afternoon. "I don't know," said Mr. Robot, without any hesitation. After such a display of super-intelligence, it was a pleasure to converse with him.

   1935 October 15, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 7, column 6

   Synonyms: hyperintelligence, ultraintelligence

2. countableuncountableartificial intelligenceIntelligence completely surpassing human intellect in all domains, incorporating vastly superior reasoning, processing speed, and memory.

   With self-improvement algorithms, and with rapid computations, it could quickly discover ways to become vastly smarter than us, becoming a superintelligence—that is, and AI that outthinks us in every domain.

   2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, pages 4-5

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   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. Because it is superintelligent, we probably can't control it.

   2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 90–91

   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.

   2025 June 13, Cade Metz, “Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   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.

   2025 September 3, Gary Marcus, “The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC