Non-Fiction · Digital book

Smarter Than What?

By Sikho

On a Sunday night, a woman named Ines Calloway takes a free "AI IQ test" and is told she scored 142. Her sister, on a different site, got a 138. Months earlier, in a psychologist's office, Ines was measured at 115 and handed a twenty-six-page report that she put in a drawer. Which number is hers? Smarter Than What? is a book-length answer for anyone who has seen an IQ score and wondered what it meant, or been handed one by a school, an employer, an online quiz, a court, or a headline about a chatbot with an IQ of 151. It begins in Paris in 1905, where a test was built to find schoolchildren who needed help, follows the number through an army, a courtroom and a century of argument, and ends with the machines. Along the way it explains in plain language what an IQ is (a rank in a crowd, on particular tasks, at a particular time, give or take five points), what the research says it predicts and what it leaves out, whether it can be raised, why a score near seventy matters in law, what is established and what is still disputed about group differences, and how an AI's "IQ" is computed, which is not how a person's is. The book does not sell a test, a verdict or a side. It gives you five short questions that work on any intelligence number, from a quiz result to a model leaderboard, and a chapter at the back that lists the sources chapter by chapter, including the few things that could not be checked. The four people at its center are composites, and the book says so. Everyone else in it is real.

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