Super Intelligence, Super Supercomputer, Our dreams
Intelligence is defined as "the ability of the mind to learn, to utilize what is learned, to adapt to new situations and to find new solutions". According to this definition, an intelligent person is someone who can evaluate what he/she has learned and bring new solutions to new situations.
As a dictionary definition, intelligence is the ability to think, reason, perceive objective facts, comprehend, comprehend, judge and draw conclusions.
If we take a look at alternative concepts of intelligence, according to neuropsychologist Howard GARDNER's theory of multiple intelligences, 7 different intelligences have been identified.
Linguistic intelligence (writers, politicians)
Logical-mathematical intelligence (scientists, philosophers, researchers)
Visual-spatial intelligence (architects, sailors)
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (athletes, artists, dancers)
Musical intelligence (musicians)
Interpersonal intelligence (teacher, salesman, politician)
Self-intelligence (philosophers, scientists).
According to this concept, intelligence is influenced not only by cognitive but also by motivational and emotional factors. For example, a student's failure in mathematics may be due to the fact that he/she dislikes the teacher or feels shy in some cases.
In addition to all these concepts, there are different definitions of intelligence by different people.
Einstein linked creativity and intelligence by saying, "The criterion of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was more philosophical: "I know I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
Let's continue with the definition of intelligence signed by 52 academics and first published in 1994: "Intelligence, along with many other abilities, is a very general mental ability that includes reasoning, planning, problem solving, abstract thinking, comprehension of complex ideas, quick learning, and the ability to gain from experience."
Intelligence is not simply the ability to learn from a book, to acquire narrow academic skills, or to solve tests. Intelligence reflects broader and deeper abilities to comprehend the environment.
Having given so much information about intelligence, let's look at what it means to be super-intelligent.
When we say intelligent people, we can start by listing the common general characteristics of these people.
Smart people are not easily distracted.
They are night owls.
They are very adaptable.
They know how much they don't know.
They have a relentless curiosity.
They are open-minded.
They like to spend time by themselves.
They have a strong will.
They are fun.
They respect the experiences of others.
They reconcile seemingly unrelated concepts.
They procrastinate
They think about big problems...
If you ask why I have written about the characteristics of intelligent people, I can say that it is because there is still no general definition of super-intelligent people.
We call "super-intelligent" people who show most of the characteristics written above or who use their intelligence in the events they encounter and provide solutions to the events in a short time.
Super-intelligent people's initial reactions and perspectives are also different from those of people with normal intelligence.
But even if they are super-intelligent people, the repetition of the same events tires them out.
We can explain this situation with an example. Let's say adding 10-digit numbers, a person with normal intelligence can do it up to 15-20 times without error. A super-intelligent person can do it up to 40-50 times.
The purpose of intelligence tests is to measure this ability and endurance of super-intelligent people. When they are challenged, how long they can perform operations without errors.
But in the end, every human being has a limit of endurance.
What about computers?
What do supercomputers do?
Supercomputers refer to the fastest high-performance computers available at any given time. They have larger storage capacity and computing speeds at least ten times faster than any other computer. Because of these characteristics, supercomputers are used in scientific and engineering applications that require large amounts of computing resources. On supercomputers, 100 people can work together at the same time. However, they are more expensive computer systems than other computers.
Supercomputers are used in various fields that require intensive computation; climate and weather, geophysics, nuclear weapons and reactors, medical imaging, new chemical research (e.g. pharmacology) and cryptology to analyze complex physical phenomena and test mathematical models to produce new designs.
Currently, there are more than 500 types of supercomputers in the world. The world's most powerful supercomputer, fugaku, was developed by Japan Country. Pratyush is the fastest supercomputer in India. The supercomputer used by NASA is Pleiades. The country with the most supercomputers is China.
Supercomputers are systems that add, multiply and divide 10 or more digit numbers accurately by design, as long as there is electricity. But just like this addition, they can perform millions of standard operations much faster and millions of times more accurately than humans today.
Some people can do this to a limited extent and for longer periods of time, but if they cannot transfer this ability to their lives, they cannot be called superintelligent.
Supercomputers cannot give an answer to a problem they encounter unless they are told what to do.
Supercomputers operate under defined, written and predefined conditions.
What about unwritten, undefined or unknown conditions?
Only people with normal or super intelligence can answer this question.
An intelligent person tries to find solutions to problems and events in the light of his/her education and experience.
This can also be done by many people. This is called "collective intelligence".
Gifted people, on the other hand, listen, learn, analyze and skillfully use what they have learned to solve the problems they face. For this purpose, he uses his missing resilience by designing and programming a supercomputer that can perform mathematical operations with millions of information, so that it always produces accurate and useful results for him. A lot of information is useless unless it is analyzed. This is why experience is important.
Another way of thinking about it is that a supercomputer, as Einstein put it, can do millions of tasks in a very short time, but it cannot imagine them.
Intelligence is not a great accumulation of knowledge or knowing millions of information. If it were, the encyclopedias in our homes in the past years would have been the most intelligent objects.
Superior intelligence is the ability to research and learn the necessary information on an unknown subject and to imagine.
When we say that intelligence is the ability to solve problems in simple and straightforward ways, we come up with the following theorem.
If there is a problem that you cannot solve, it means that there are people who cannot solve it. The fact that many intelligences cannot come together to solve this problem indicates the magnitude of this problem.
Or it proves that there are people who use their intelligence for different purposes and processes.
Intelligence should also have a moral characteristic. If a person who plans the theft of a valuable work of art from a museum without any mistakes does not have any moral qualities, he is not considered intelligent.
Intelligence should be both moral and beneficial to the society and humanity for tens and hundreds of years.
Our society has named this situation with a proverb.
"He who knows too much is often wrong." More precisely, it means that no matter how much a person knows, there is more that he does not know, and a person who is too confident because he knows too much is often wrong."
People who can dream are smart.
Those who dream big and work to realize their dreams are super-intelligent.
Everything starts with dreaming.
