Name: Will humans keep getting smarter? | BBC Ideas
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Past simple

the average score on IQ tests across the world grew significantly.

The comparative

Does this mean humans are getting smarter?

And what will intelligence mean in the future?

Will emotional intelligence, showing understanding of others,

be considered more important than abstract logic?

Will humans be eclipsed by intelligent machines?

We asked some of the planet's leading intelligence experts

During the 20th Century, IQs around the world

is the difference between someone ranked as average

and so what that shows is clearly intelligence can be increased.

Academic intelligence or analytical intelligence can be increased.

Creativity, you learn by having good parenting and good schooling

And common sense you learn from the mistakes

you and others make in your life and how to fix them.

Increasing quality of nutrition, better education,

and greater exposure to more new technologies

are all factors behind our increasing intelligence -

that require new tools and we're going to keep the old toolset

and get some new ones and that's been going on

I don't know if we'll reach the limit of human intelligence

is that we all could do much better than we're doing,

people could be much smarter if they focused on,

"How can we make the world a better place?"

We have no idea what the limit of human intelligence might be.

embrace the notion that intelligence is truly malleable,

that we can grow and develop and get smarter.

I don't think intelligence is rising at all

and I don't think it has risen for a very long time.

The earliest humans like us with our brain capacity go back 315,000 years

and we know now that those people were involved in long distance trade.

Go back 100,000 years and people were developing paint workshops

they were developing plaques with abstract symbols.

Those people were clearly modern human beings

I don't think intelligence has changed since then.

whether intelligence is increasing or not is how we measure it.

on abstract logic to tell us everything we need to know

So maybe we're looking at intelligence the wrong way.

Perhaps it's time we stopped thinking about intelligence

place less emphasis on intelligence as it's conventionally defined

because basically it's very much viewed as individual,

whereas in fact most of what we do in the world is in groups

we work together mutually to solve problems.

I think we need, as a society, to put more emphasis

How do you use - whether it's your IQ or your creative intelligence,

how do you use these kinds of knowledge and skills

If we start to think of intelligence as a way of improving the common good

we also need to ensure that everyone's perspectives are included.

which has been growing exponentially in the last few years,

with different kinds of neurological capacities

should not be excluded but should be integrated into society

because they have so much more to benefit that society.

all people had the capacity to shape and change the world.

Somebody like Greta Thunberg is a perfect example

of someone whose different style of thinking

to use our different forms of intelligence to improve the world,

Are we likely to be out-thought, out grown,

or even replaced by intelligent machines?

I would say that artificial intelligence and human intelligence

really are two completely separate phenomena.

I would say that artificial intelligence really isn't bound

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