Why comparing AI to "smart" humans is a flawed measurement

Some of the tech industry's loudest voices — most recently Elon Musk — keep aiming for AI to become "smarter than humans," yet there isn't agreement on what that bar is. Why it matters: If we obsess over this fuzzy human-centric yardstick for AI's abilities, we could miss out on promising — but decidedly non-human — ways machines could meet actual human needs. • "The real problem is that we view AI systems as similar to humans," Konrad Kording, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies machine learning,...