The Smartest Tool in the Shed
The Smartest tool in the shed has an IQ of 110.
What is Average Intelligence?
Oh, hello person on the internet reporting the news that the reporters already reported and that I'm now hearing about for the 10th time today. That AI invasion MUST be true if you've said it!
What is Confirmation Bias?
This IQ test is the most widely used and contains a series of sub-tests, one of which involves visuospatial intelligence.
What is the WAIS?
We debate if AI is actually intelligent, but it can certainly do this (once thought exclusively human ) feature, better than most humans actually
What is Create?
Life's little lessons leave lasting legacies, leading learners to live a little differently. This psychological process produces these persistent changes through experience.
What is Learning?
The step-by-step procedure or mathematical formula that guarantees a correct solution to a problem if followed accurately
What is an algorithm?
When we thing we are experiencing Déjà Vu we likely are just having an issue with this step in the memory process? This is the stage where we stabilize a memory and prepare it for storage.
What is consolidation?
While hard to see on another's face, guilt, embarrassment, humiliation, are all this kind of emotion.
What are Self-Conscious Emotions?
If we can ever get rid of the AI, we should be very worried about this! The sudden reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after a rest period without any additional pairings.
What is spontaneous recovery?
Before bells brought behavioral changes, bites of beef brought buckets of bubbly, bothersome drool. This term describes this reflexive reaction to food.
What is the unconditioned response (UCR)?
A cognitive bias where an individual is blind to unusual or non-traditional uses for common objects, such as failing to see that a brick can serve as a hammer or a shovel can be used to prop open your front door.
What is functional fixedness?
I've seen this guy like 9 times today! He keeps walking his dog and ringing this bell as he goes by.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
These neurological cells are active when we are watching others do a task, listening to them speak, even when we are feeling what they feel!
What are mirror neurons?
This is the part of the brain within the limbic structure responsible for evaluating the emotional significance of stimuli, particularly fear. Good thing AI hasn't developed its own yet!
What is the amygdala?
Whether we're wide awake or wandering in a waking dream, these two wonderfully woven dimensions determine just how conscious we seem.
What are wakefulness and awareness?
The Smartest tool in Pavlov's tool bag.
What is a bell?
Oh, hello person on the internet reporting the news that the reporters already reported and that I'm now hearing about for the 10th time today. That AI invasion MUST be true if you've said it!
What is Confirmation Bias?
If you're motivated enough, you may see these external objects or events that pull an organism toward action and motivate behavior, such as money, grades, or trophies
What are incentives?
For our sake, we should hope that AI doesn't truly develop this core trait. One of the four core components of intrinsic motivation, the others include challenge, enjoyment & mastery.
What is autonomy?
Hungry humans hurry for hamburgers, thirsty thinkers thirst for tea, and sleepy students seek some shut-eye. What psychological term explains these bodily deficiencies?
What are Needs?
What is crystallized intelligence?
The memory strategy of grouping individual items into smaller, meaningful units to increase short-term memory capacity
What is chunking?
An operant conditioning technique where target behaviors are taught by reinforcing successive approximations of the desired behavior
What is Shaping?
One of the parts of the AI Invasion that worries many people is that they are becoming better at solving the kind of problems that have no single known solution and require novel, flexible thinking to solve
What are divergent thinking problems?
When rats react and rewards result, rats repeat their reactions. But when reactions reap rotten results, rats rarely repeat them. This tongue twister explains this principle.
What is the Law of Effect?