In the modern world, artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving and deeply impacting every aspect of life. We can observe its presence everywhere, from social media to chatbots to autonomous vehicles. It is influencing the ways people think, communicate, learn and even make decisions. This integration of AI in daily life has given birth to a proposition that it can replace human intelligence. Although AI systems are extraordinary in helping solve computational and data-driven problems, they do not equal human intelligence, which is deeply embedded in consciousness, based on emotions, experience, ethics, social relationships and meaning-making. On the other hand, AI systems are based on generating statistical outcomes through data. This raises an interesting question: how can an entity created by humans go beyond human abilities? To understand this, there is a need to analyze intelligence.
In psychological epistemology, the concept of intelligence has remained a critical inquiry.
Alfred Binet (1905) described intelligence as the ability to think, judge and understand.
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