“Mine’s 163”
— Ace Frehley talking about his IQ
Metal Sludge — In a brand new interview former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley talks about his latest single “10,000 Volts” and how his collaboration with producer Steve Brown (Trixter, Def Leppard, Tokyo Motor Fist) came about.
Frehley also talks about AI (artificial intelligence) and how it has come into play with writing music among other things.
At some point the former KISS axe-man references his IQ (intelligence quotient) and says; “Mine’s 163”.
Some excerpts from the interview were picked up by Blabbermouth and we’ve shared them below.
Blabbermouth writes: “In a new interview with Germany’s Radio Bob!, Ace Frehley was asked if he would ever consider using artificial intelligence during the songwriting process. The former KISS guitarist responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I remember calling up Steve [Brown, Ace‘s co-writer and producer] after we had recorded about five or six songs for [my new] record [‘10,000 Volts’], and I said most of these songs are about girls. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but I said it’s time to change some of the subject matter. And I had been recently — I was on YouTube listening to things that scientists were saying about AI. Elon Musk, he made a statement that he’s nervous about the regulations that we have in place at this moment and that AI, at any point, can go out of control. Some scientists have said that within five or 10 years, just like the ‘Terminator’ movies, prophesized they could take us out, all the robots and stuff, once they become self-aware.
“Google‘s making robots that have access to 20,000 computers, so a Google robot can beat any human being in chess, can beat any human being in math, can answer more questions than anybody, can get a perfect IQ of 200 or whatever a perfect IQ is,” he continued. “Mine’s 163. Thank God. I’m not one of those ones in the under-100 area. So we have these machines that have access to so much information and there is gonna come a time when they may become self-aware. And once they become self-aware, they may decide, ‘Hey, the humans can pull the plug on us at any time and we’re dead. So maybe we can make a better world without humans and start all over again and just keep a select few.’ I have no idea what’s gonna happen. And I just live one day at a time at this point.”
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Metal Sludge did a quick Google search and it appears that Einstein is believed to have had an IQ of 160.
Additional searches note Elon Musk (Tesla) has an IQ of 155, Jeff Bezos (Amazon) is at 145 and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) is listed at 152.
So, for what it’s worth, it appears that Ace Frehley is a tad smarter than Einstein, Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg.
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