superintelligence
Americannoun
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the cognitive capacity of an entity that possesses a higher level of intelligence than humans.
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an entity that possesses a higher level of intelligence than humans.
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an unusually high level of human intelligence.
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First, he parades all the safety doomers, seeming to believe their warnings that an unfeeling superintelligence is upon us and we can’t trust it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Super Duper: Meta Platforms is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to help bolster the company’s superintelligence efforts, according to an internal memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Boss Mark Zuckerberg has committed billions of dollars to achieving what he calls "superintelligence."
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
Science fiction portrays AI as superintelligence that can operate faster and better than people can, and do it autonomously.
From Barron's • Jan. 3, 2026
Jake also wondered if boredom with everyday, humdrum things might be a curse that came with superintelligence.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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