Intelligence testing 智力测试 Who are you calling bird-brained? 叫谁是笨蛋呢? An attempt is being made to devise a universalintelligence test 人类正尝试设计一种通用的智力测验 WHAT is the IQ of a chimpanzee? Or a worm? Or a game-show-winning computerprogram? Or even an alien from the planet Zaarg who can learn any human language in aday, can beat grandmasters ten at a time and can instantly factor the products of largeprime numbers? 黑猩猩、蠕虫或用于智力竞赛的计算机程序,甚至是来自Zaarg星球的外星人外星人能在一天内学会任何一门人类语言,每次都能赢棋类大师10分,能立即分解出大质数的因子,它们的智商是多少呢? At the moment it is impossible to say. 当问到这类问题,没有人能回答出来。 IQ tests depend on language, and even Watson, a computer program that beat two humancontestants in a special edition of Jeopardy!on February 16th, does not have a perfectcommand of English. IQ测试依赖于语言,而且就算是Watson系统对英语也不是了如指掌2月16日,Watson系统在美国智力竞赛 Jeopardy! 的特别节目中击败了两名人类对手。 In any case there is, at the moment,no meaningful scale on which non-human intelligence can be compared with the humansort. |