Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr AI is not that smartAuthor of the article:By John Van Sloten Published Mar 21, 2026Last updated 12 hours ago3 minute read Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.
Even if AI were able to gather up all human intelligence, it would still fall short of the potential of human brains and communities of human beings collectively growing in wisdom, knowledge and understanding, writes John Van Sloten. Robert Cross illustration; Getty Images. PostmediaArticle contentI was comforted by an article I’d recently read that laid out the shortfalls of artificial intelligence (AI). In it, the authors push back on the claim that AI has now met the level of “general human intelligence” — what AI proponents call Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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The article argues that the limited range of AI intelligence cannot compare to the breadth of human intelligence. Where AI is smart within a narrow band of knowledge, human intelligence is comprehensive across a wide array of complex and ever-changing environments. Human knowledge is more sophisticated when it comes to values, adaptability, learning via varying means, abstraction, judgment and morality.
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