What Terence Tao thinks about measuring intelligence

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingWe are living through a cognitive Copernican revolution: human intelligence is not the centre, and which tasks we count as requiring intelligence has to be re-evaluated.

   Their wordsyou know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 4th of 24 in this recording