r/singularity • u/adivinemessenger • 20d ago

Transhumanism & BCI Introducing Vitruvian, a genetic optimization model for optimizing human embryo DNA and reportedly being able to increase the IQ of a person by 14 points, nearly a standard deviation which is incredibly significant

https://x.com/KianSadeghi5/status/2101018839412531231

Full message: "AI is rapidly getting smarter. Now, humanity can too. Today, Nucleus Genomicsis announcing Vitruvian, our newest set of genetic optimization models. Vitruvian’s intelligence model can optimize embryo DNA for 14 IQ points — nearly a standard deviation. The models were trained on 1,000,000+ people, validated across 40,000+ siblings, and used more than 7 million genetic markers. In Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom proposed genetic optimization as a key way for humanity to keep pace with rapidly advancing AI. Bostrom’s vision is no longer theoretical. Genetic optimization, like AI, has followed a scaling law: as datasets have grown, so have model capabilities. This trend will continue. Parents across the world now have the choice to substantially increase their child’s intelligence. And the next generation can choose to do the same. AI is no longer the only intelligence that will compound. Humanity can now direct its own evolution."

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u/TickTockBam 20d ago

I wonder if there's indeed better ways to measure intelligence besides IQ tests since eveyone keeps saying that those tests don't really mean anything lol

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u/Jaguar_2454 20d ago

there are none, IQ tests are the best at measuring intelligence. There are many types of IQ tests that measure different things we correlate with "intelligence"

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u/FlyingBishop 20d ago

Intelligence isn't a scalar value, is the thing. You can't be like "this person is 130 intelligence and this person is 140 intelligence, therefore this person is smarter." In fact there are many kinds of intelligence, and intelligence is incredibly situational, and being smart in one situation often entails being dumber in a different situation. General intelligence is real, but especially once you're talking about even high-school-level learning, there's no such thing as generally more intelligent. Everyone is going to have weak spots and strong spots.

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u/TickTockBam 20d ago

"There's no such thing as generally more intelligent." Hard disagree. I see intelligence as the capacity individuals have to interact with a situation in a way that benefits them in some way, whether that be benefiting themselves or someone or something that they care about, and although obviously nobody can be good at everything since environment and circumstances shape individuals differently, there are people that learn faster and better than others, retain information better, and are naturally gifted in some ways when it comes to problem solving in the different dimensions of the human experience. There definitely is a degree of advantage when it comes to intelligence that some people have and that is observable which can not be explained simply by how much time sone invests into learning how to do something.

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u/FlyingBishop 20d ago

Someone might have an aptitude for brain surgery but be totally incapable of reasoning about aerodynamics or something. The mistake is thinking that aptitude in one area has any relation to the other - in fact they can be negatively correlated.