The difference between INTELLIGENCE and WISDOM

Liv Boeree discusses the need for Artificial General Wisdom (as opposed to AGI) with the Future of Life Institute.

[kungfujoe]

“Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That’s why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.”
— Stephen Fry

[TomekSamcik]

Intelligence is knowing how to win the game and wisdom is knowing that you don't have to :)

[SeaFan]

Stealing from a common use of Tomato to explain D&D stats: intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad

[HereinLA_Original]

Wisdom... Common sense.... Experience.... Go Liv !!!

[buttoxbrown]

Wisdom is knowing the consequences of the things you think, say and do. That's what makes you wise

[UrosNikolic]

I wrote a short story addressing this same issue. One upon a time there was smart man and a wise man. Smart one asks wise one: "What is the difference between being smart and being wise?" -"Do you remember that time that you competed for that girls hand?" -"Yes, but it turns out that she had awful character. It would be better that I haven't competed in the first place at all. You haven't competed right?" -"No, I haven`t and that exactly demonstrates what is the difference between being smart and being intelligent: Smart one knows how to win competitions, while the wise one knows is it worth competing in the at all." Story is called "Smart man and wise man." from book "Fragmented mind" by Uros Nikolic (me).

[Bob-qjnk]

I don't know about wisdom, but if we ever build an Artificial General Woman it should be inspired by Liv Boeree :)

[jasonbelldata]

An import piece to note is how some of backgrounds of how the algorithms were constructed in the first place. First of all the larger developer employers were largely young male programmers, who's attitude to risk taking is higher than in older people. The tech sector is funded by VCs who want quick returns from high risk sectors as soon as possible. The culture of high risk, high reward means that wisdom is rarely looked at. And LLMs and GPT have just proven that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Though both Google and OpenAI have realised there's a bit problem for them, open source. It'll be interesting to watch the next chapter open up in front of us.

[Thejacka]

Wisdom is seeing the whole chess board…

Intelligence is analysis of one move at a time…

[willykang]

Wisdom is also much needed for human being. For example: "Buying a safest Tesla is really intelligent, but knowing himself really need a Tesla or not if he don’t need a car in his life is Wisdom."

[kiwihame]

Wisdom depends on motivation. Motivation depends on alignment (with humanity's values, desires, and motivations) It all comes down to solving the alignment problem. We're not displaying much wisdom.

[brandonzhang]

Wisdom is used mostly to describe knowing what to do about real world situations, intelligence describes the same level of insight but for conceptual matters. In this view intelligence can be considered wisdom in specifically the epistemological domain.

[HankSohota]

How about a holarchy of insight?

8. Perspicacity
7. Sagacity
6. Wisdom
5. Comprehension
4. Understanding
3. Knowledge
2. Information
1. Data

[spiritzweispiritst]

Very awesome words for the 'strange new world' to learn from' Thank you !🌦️

[jorgefachada]

Wisdom is knowledge in action. Many people know how sugar is really bad for you, but they don't have the wisdom to not eat it.

[EREN-buwp]

Daniel S..."wisdom binds Intelligence. ."

[zulqadarrrashid]

A pint of common sense is better than a gallon of heroism 😊
From Pakistan 🇵🇰

[QQ]

I still think AI has more wisdom than most people because the quality of mental health advice ChatGPT gives is actually pretty decent. It can be useful to a lot of people.

[pyramidal_fever]

admirable, although I feel AGI to be a superset? From you I interpret that wisdom concerns intelligent reasoning on meta-dynamics while pure intelligence may only deal directly with stuff, but before going meta we should achieve *general* intelligent cognition, shouldnt we?

[tobyiy]

is it possible to have an AI (or non-AI software) that has non-general wisdom? is wisdom fractal?