Intelligence testing: Who are you calling bird-brained?

There are no meaningful IQ tests that successfully compare non-human intelligence with human intelligence at present. Alan Turing, a British computing pioneer, designed the most famous test for artificial intelligence, but the test would require a program to share a language with the tester, making...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 398; no. 8723; pp. 86 - 87
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited March 5 2011
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Summary:There are no meaningful IQ tests that successfully compare non-human intelligence with human intelligence at present. Alan Turing, a British computing pioneer, designed the most famous test for artificial intelligence, but the test would require a program to share a language with the tester, making it impossible to accurately rank different forms of artificial intelligence against each other. José Hernández-Orallo from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and David Dowe from Monash University, Australia, are attempting to devise a universal scale of intelligence that can be assessed without reference to language.