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But every now and then an upper-case, disruptive jump occurs, creating a whole new genre, a new territory, or a new way to improve. Instead of incrementally climbing up the gradient, this change is creating a whole new hill to climb. This process is known as hill-making rather than hill climbing.

Hill-making is much harder to do, but far more... See more

Upper-case, disruptive Creativity discovers or creates new areas to be creative in. It alters the landscape. Most everyday base creativity is filling in the landscape rather than birthing it. Disruptive Creativity is like the discovery of DNA, or the invention of photography, or Impressionism in art. Rather than just solving for the best... See more

Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them to play their old songs, paint the same style paintings, and make the same kind of great movies. But in order to keep improving, to maintain their reputation as someone creative, the artists need to... See more

This will change in the future, but if we are evidence based, the data so far is that the real harms of AI are almost nil, while the imagined harms are astronomical. If we base our policies for AIs on the reasonable fact that they are varied and heterogenous, and their benefits are more than answering questions, and that so far we have no evidence... See more

In addition, organizations can’t simply import AIs as if they were just hiring additional people. Work flows and even the shape of the organizations need to change to fit AIs. Something similar happened as organizations electrified a century ago. One could not introduce electric motors, telegrams, lights, telephones, into a company without changing... See more

The third thing to keep in mind about AIs is that you are not late.

The second thing to keep in mind about AIs is that their ability to answer questions is probably the least important thing about them. Getting answers is how we will use them at first, but their real power is in something we call spatial intelligence – their ability to simulate, render, generate, and manage the 3D world. It is a genuine superpower... See more

And none of these species of AI – not one – will think like a human. All of them produce alien intelligences. Even as they approach consciousness, they will be alien, almost as if they are artificial alien beings.