*most humans are not that smart actually

What truly makes humans unique? This video dives into the latest scientific evidence on human cognitive abilities compared to other intelligent animals like apes.

Complex language with symbolic labels and recursive grammar may be the key capability that allowed ideas and innovations to accumulate across generations, turbocharging human intelligence and culture in unprecedented ways.

This is a part of a Series on the History of Human Intelligence and AI.

Further Reading:

· The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
· Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
· Brain Structure and Its Origins: In Development and in Evolution of Behavior and the Mind by Gerald E. Schneider
· Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates by Georg F. Striedter and R. Glenn Northcutt
· Cerebral Cortex by Edmund Rolls
· The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
· Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
· Evolution of Behavioural Control from Chordates to Primates by Paul Cisek
· The Evolution of Language by W. Tecumseh Fitch
· The Evolution of Memory Systems by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, and Kim S. Graham
· The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness by Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka
· Evolutionary Neuroscience by Jon H. Kaas
· Fish Cognition and Behavior by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, and Jens Krause
· A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett