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This vision of ‘intelligence’ is rooted in the notably racist notions of IQ (and its associated race science). For example, take the recent “Sparks of AGI” paper (non-peer-reviewed speculative fiction novella, uploaded to arXiv) from Microsoft Research. The first version of this paper took its definition of ‘intelligence’ from a 1997 WSJ editorial written in support of Herrnstein & Murray’s 1994 The Bell Curve. It appears that none of the authors on “Sparks of AGI” had actually read to the second page of the WSJ editorial, where the overtly racist claims that Black and Latinx people are (on average) less ‘intelligent’ than white people can be found. Once it was pointed out, the “Sparks” authors responded by editing their arXiv novella first to disavow the racism in the 1997 editorial and then to remove the citation altogether. This, of course, left “Sparks” without a definition of the thing it claimed to be seeking (and finding!) in GPT-4 output.