Besides being next to useless for actually measuring intelligence, here's why we should kill IQ scores for good
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
Gene Smith on Twitter / X
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile pic.twitter.com/qE4s3bs7AY— Gene Smith (@GeneSmi96946389) May 22, 2026
Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
How ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Can Reframe the A.I. Debate
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation
The entire literature clearly points to a single surprising finding
We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't
Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
Who earned the score? - Sensemaker
This week's AI claims blurred models, systems, simulations and people. The evidence becomes clearer when the tested subject comes first.
Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling’s future?
Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape in the U.S.
Index
OpenSkill: Multiplayer Rating System. No Friction. In the multifaceted world of online gaming, an accurate multiplayer rating system plays a crucial role. A multiplayer rating system measures and c...
When benchmarks go bad - what I learned from measuring performance wrong - Holly Cummins
The world of performance analysis is littered with flawed claims, cognitive biases, dangerous intuitions, and beguiling fallacies. Sadly…
Collective Intelligence Research
Explorations into the idea that a group of humans is "more intelligent" than the sum of their "IQ" (i.e. "groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent")
Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions
Socially Minded Intelligence: How Individuals, Groups, and Artificial Intelligence Can Make Each Other Smarter (or Not)
Profile: Adrien Treuille
NOVA | The Wisdom of the Crowds | Season 45 | Episode 6
Mapping Citizen Science through the Lens of Human-Centered AI
Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science
