intelligence on whose terms?
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
intelligence is not one-dimensional,
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
If AI starts to generate intelligence by itself, there’s no guarantee that it will be human-like. Rather than humans teaching machines to think like humans, machines might teach humans new ways of thinking.
Will Douglas Heaven • AI is learning how to create itself
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Rethinking what intelligence might be also allows us to rethink the modes and mechanisms which might produce it, and thus to come up with new ways of being intelligent.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
intelligence is relational: it matters how and where you do it, what form your body gives it, and with whom it connects.