"AI is about X, not Y." Maybe we all should consider calling it what it is and not push marketing buzz words around.

I call it pattern matching.

If you mean with Skynet an army of limited chatbots, then yes. We are all scared

You joke but it could ruin plenty of forums!

Is that really so? I think this field has been hyped pretty hard and lots of people want a piece of that deep neural cake.

Cope

Cringe

Has anyone here tried Dual N-Back for more than a couple of weeks? Does it really improve working memory and indirectly your IQ?

Short answer - it probably doesn't do too much outside of making you better at tasks similar to n back.

Long answer - https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ

It improves your skill of doing Dual N-Back. Most new studies show that brain games (like dual N-Back) are not transitive (unfortunately).

I can recommend meditation for people with social anxiety. When I meditate on a regular basis, the way I interact changes completely. It's more intuitive and I say and do things I wouldn't do otherwise, yet people are completely fine with it and like me more. Like I am really authentic

Reading speed is highly correlated with the difficulty of the material. And even this factor varies from person to person because of different backgrounds and interests. For me reading speed and a quiz on the material afterwards are useless indicators of someone's overall speed. Every person should read as fast or as slow to full grasp the material.

IQ is a highly outdated concept and making wild assumptions about correlation unscientific. Reading becomes more effortless with practice.

In my experience (which isn't data) the correlation is weak at best, I know people I consider much smarter than me who read slower (my boss for example, he has advanced degrees in industrial chemistry and is ridiculously smart)

That and people over-estimate my intelligence because I know about lots of random things, they think I'm smart because of that but they could have done exactly the same thing if they'd chosen to which feeds nicely into nature vs nurture I guess.

I got hooked on books and my mum fed that addiction, that they didn't is the only difference.

It helps that the perception of computer programmers is that we are geeky but do something that is incredibly difficult (when I know the reality is except for certain domains, you really don't need much math beyond arithmetic and the rest is conscientious attention to detail and explaining the problem simply to a really high speed idiot).