Are psychometric tests valid for a new reality of artificial intelligence systems technology-enhanced humans & hybrids yet to come? Are the Turing Test the ubiquitous CAPTCHAs & the various animal cognition tests the best alternatives? In this fascinating & provocative book Jose Hernandez-Orallo formulates major scientific questions integrates the most significant research developments & 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 & collective features & critically analyzes what the future of intelligence might look like