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What is a good way to test for better than human intelligence?

One that is easy to verify and not hugely tied to a specific domain - Chess, Go, Protein folding etc?

History

For a long time the Turing Test was the gold standard for artificial intelligence, but having blown past that with out much funfair we are unsure what a true test of general super intelligence is.

There is a good chance that super intelligence methods are unrecognisable to us, but a test of the results could be easy.

Proposal - The Skibidi toilet test

For the uninitiated, Skibidi toilet is a viral meme / web-series prominently featuring a man’s head in a toilet (singing?). That might end up as a Hollywood movie Forbes

Having long ago left my youth, I look at it with a mixture of bafflement and surprise. What even is it? Why is it popular? But the numbers don’t lie(?), it is hugely popular and entered my mind unbidden.

So the test is very simple:

Could an artificial intelligence create a piece of media on demand that reached similar levels of cultural impact as Skibidi toilet?

Why I think this could be useful?

  • This is not currently humanly possible.
    • Many try, and some are better than others, but it is fundamentally impossible to predict.
  • Out of distribution
    • By definition it has to be something unique, eliciting a thats cool response.
  • Models other minds
    • The tone \ content \ semiotics has to speak to a large enough group of people and worth sharing.
  • Surfing the Geist
    • To both understand and respond to the Geist, to directly observe the anima mundi, spiritus universi