Answers.Body: <p>There are three typical use cases for the phrase 'superintelligent':</p>
  
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  <li><p>Something that is at least as smart as a human for <em>every</em> task.</p></li>
  <li><p>Something that is smart enough to improve itself on a fundamental level.</p></li>
  <li><p>Something that is smarter than a human at a <em>single</em> task.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Most uses that I see are definition 2, but the other two are also somewhat common. I typically follow I. J. Good and use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._J._Good#Research_and_publications" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ultraintelligence</a> for the first definition. (There are lots of arguments that something that fits definition 1 is likely to fit definition 2 as well, but this doesn't seem to be logically necessary.)</p>
  
  <p>Obviously, Deep Blue only counts for definition 3.</p>
  
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Body: <p>When AI has some narrow domain, such as chess, where it can outperform the world's human masters of chess, does it make it a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence" rel="nofollow noreferrer">superintelligence</a> or not?</p>
  
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Title: Is Deep Blue superintelligent or not?
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ThreadText: # Is Deep Blue superintelligent or not?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-07)
  
  When AI has some narrow domain, such as chess, where it can outperform the world's human masters of chess, does it make it a [superintelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence) or not?
  
  **Tags:** definitions, superintelligence, deep-blue
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  > **username_1**: [Here](https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/9165/2444) is a related question.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-08-07. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  There are three typical use cases for the phrase 'superintelligent':
  
  1. Something that is at least as smart as a human for *every* task.
  2. Something that is smart enough to improve itself on a fundamental level.
  3. Something that is smarter than a human at a *single* task.
  
  Most uses that I see are definition 2, but the other two are also somewhat common. I typically follow I. J. Good and use [ultraintelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._J._Good#Research_and_publications) for the first definition. (There are lots of arguments that something that fits definition 1 is likely to fit definition 2 as well, but this doesn't seem to be logically necessary.)
  
  Obviously, Deep Blue only counts for definition 3.
  
  
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