superintelligence

From super- +‎ intelligence.

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superintelligence (countable and uncountable, plural superintelligences)

1. (futurology, artificial intelligence) Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.
   • 2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 90–91:

     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.

   • 2025 June 13, Cade Metz, “Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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 September 3, Gary Marcus, “The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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.

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