Social cognition: processing and interpreting social information and responding appropriately in social situations

Is social cognition really a measure of intelligence for non-social entities?

doginasuit 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

An AI designed to interact with humans is a social entity. Its performance will depend on its ability to understand social information.

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lnenad 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is not. Why is that relevant to social entities?

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lvoudour 19 hours ago | parent [-]

How well you interact with other members of a society increases your chances of procreation, survival, knowledge acquisition, ie. it makes sense as a measure of intelligence

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LogicFailsMe 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a pretty ambiguous definition. The most powerful man in the world right now is not someone I consider a role model for social cognition and yet there he is with the football for the second time demonstrating grandmaster skill at social cognition to get there.

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lvoudour 19 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't have to be empathetic and nice, just good at navigating society.

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LogicFailsMe 17 hours ago | parent [-]

So in all seriousness with a bit of snark: Do you want a malevolent AGI? Because "good at navigating society" as the only benchmark here is how you get a malevolent AGI...

Evidence: cuckoos and cheaters all the way down the evolutionary ladder as a winning strategy and arms race against the hard workers.

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lvoudour 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't like a$$holes but they do exist and they are part of our species, ergo intelligent. My opinion of them doesn't change the fact

	▲	LogicFailsMe 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but we have a choice about whether the AGI is an a$$h0l3 or not. That's the difference here. You do see that right?

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lnenad 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree 100%.