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superintelligence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō? Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂légeti Proto-Italic *legō? Latin intellegō Latin intellegēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin intellegentia Old French intelligencebor. Middle English intelligence English intelligence English superintelligence From super- + intelligence.

Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:artificial intelligence, uncountable) Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.
   • The lesson of this little story is that if and when human-level AI is achieved, superintelligence will soon follow. […] What we have in this story seems to be a form of collective superintelligence. 2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 90–91:
   • Fundamentally, people like Mr. Altman, the Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei and countless other tech leaders and investors had put far too much faith into a speculative and unproven hypothesis called scaling: the idea that training A.I. models on ever more data and using ever more hardware would eventually lead to A.G.I. or even a superintelligence that surpasses humans. 2025 September 3, Gary Marcus, “The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • On Thursday, Meta unveiled a $14.3 billion investment and partnership that will be the core of a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to the pursuit of “superintelligence,” a swing-for-the-fences effort in the global technology race. […] Silicon Valley leaders are now talking about building superintelligence, which would be even more powerful than A.G.I. It, too, is a loosely defined term, but generally refers to a machine that is more powerful than the human brain. 2025 June 13, Cade Metz, “Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

artificial superintelligence

Relateds

superintelligent

Synonyms

hyperintelligence

Translations (13)

pt superinteligência (superintelligence) · no superintelligens (superintelligence) · fr superintelligence (superintelligence) · af superinteligensie (superintelligence) · it superintelligenza (superintelligence) · de Superintelligenz (superintelligence) · ro superinteligență (superintelligence) · ca superintel·ligència (superintelligence) · nl superintelligentie (superintelligence) · da superintelligens (superintelligence) · es superinteligencia (superintelligence) · is ofurgreind (superintelligence) · sv superintelligens (superintelligence)