The Measure of All Minds

Are psychometric tests valid for a new reality of artificial intelligence systems technology-enhanced humans and hybrids yet to come? Are the Turing Test the ubiquitous CAPTCHAs and the various animal cognition tests the best alternatives? In this fascinating and provocative book Jos Hernndez-Orallo formulates major scientific questions integrates the most significant research developments and offers a vision of the universal evaluation of cognition. By replacing the dominant anthropocentric stance with a universal perspective where living organisms are considered as a special case long-standing questions in the evaluation of behavior can be addressed in a wider landscape. Can we derive task difficulty intrinsically? Is a universal g factor - a common general component for all abilities - theoretically possible? Using algorithmic information theory as a foundation the book elaborates on the evaluation of perceptual developmental social verbal and collective features and critically analyzes what the future of intelligence might look like.