A Brief History of Intelligence
Nowhere could I find a shared, unified effort, analogous to the single-minded force that had patiently shaped the development of our own minds over the millennia. I couldn’t help but wonder what the world would be like if that changed—if researchers banded together to understand and re-create the core idea that seemed to lie at the very heart of hu
... See moreFei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
But humans have something else going on as well—cognitive superpowers that combine together into an enhanced center of consciousness we’re calling the Higher Mind.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
What is intelligence, exactly? Can it be deconstructed in quantitative, mechanistic terms? And, perhaps boldest of all, can we build machines that embody it themselves?
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
The main thing I keep coming back to is that nothing flourishes in isolation. Neurons first evolved around the same time that animals started eating each other: that is to say, the fact that we have thought at all emerges from an evolutionary necessity to be aware of the presence of other animals. That doesn’t mean intelligence has its origins in h... See more
Dark Properties – A quest to dig up bright ideas across shared ...
How would we measure the level of the intelligences we encounter there? This is an extremely difficult question because we have no real definition of our own intelligence, in part because until now we didn’t need one.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
