intelligence on whose terms?
if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
When we speak about advanced artificial intelligence, or ‘general’ artificial intelligence, this is what we mean. An intelligence which operates at the same level, and in much the same manner, as human intelligence.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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
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
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
To define intelligence simply as what humans do is the narrowest way we could possibly think about it – and it is ultimately to narrow ourselves, and lessen its possible meaning. Rather, by expanding our definition of intelligence, and the chorus of minds which manifest it, we might allow our own intelligence to flower into new forms and new emerge
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
intelligence is not one-dimensional,
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."