the whole idea of IQ tests is so funny. it feels like it has to be an elaborate prank. yeah hey everyone we came up with these puzzles that objectively measure your intelligence and aren't influenced by painfully obvious factors like whether you've done a lot of puzzles before. psych! that's clearly ridiculous
we've totally come up with a series of language- and culturally-neutral tests that will fairly and objectively determine, on a numerical scale, how likely you are to pay Mensa dues
IQ tests are bullshit. total fucking bullshit. it is entirely about practice with those specific types of puzzle, and they are not generalizable skills that help with solving even other kinds of puzzle. in fact, as puzzles go, they fail several very basic design criteria that most people who enjoy creating puzzles hold themselves to.
you might hear "puzzle" and think like "sudoku", something that has rules that force a particular solution. or at the very least a crossword, which is looser but still largely verifiable.
but no, as far as i'm aware the iq test style of puzzle is guess what the author was thinking. like "give the next number in this sequence". and the idea is to go for, i guess, some kind of elegance in your definition of the sequence, but "only the pattern i have in mind is valid" is a really fucking weird way to pretend to gauge "innate intelligence"
We'll know the LLMs have become sentient when we ask them "are you sentient" and it responds "yes"
