intelligence on whose terms?
intelligence is relational: it matters how and where you do it, what form your body gives it, and with whom it connects.
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
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
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 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
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
intelligence is not one-dimensional,
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
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 one among many ways of being in the world: it is an interface to it; it makes the world manifest.