Humans as a Social Super Computer
In field after field, we are finding that a human working with an AI co-intelligence outperforms all but the best humans working without an AI.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
excerpts from the secret of our success:
culture is smarter than we are
... See moreThe secret of our species’ success resides not in the power of our individual minds, but in the collective brains of our communities. Our collective brains arise from the synthesis of our cultural and social natures—from the fact that we readily learn from others (are cultural) a
Just as it takes a tribe to raise a child, it also takes a tribe to invent a tool, solve a conflict, or cure a disease. No individual knows everything it takes to build a cathedral, an atom bomb, or an aircraft. What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into the masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but
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