Measuring intelligence isn't easy

There's no foolproof way to measure the cognitive ability of either Joe Biden or ChatGPT.

This week I’ve been working on a couple of in-depth explainers that will be coming out in the coming weeks—one on controversial California legislation to regulate frontier models, the other on the promising Mamba architecture. But in recent days I’ve been captivated by the high-stakes debate over President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline. This is…