Diana Stepner
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Diana Stepner
Transcript: 'How to Predict the Future Like Kevin Kelly'
every.toIn his belief that intelligence is not a single unified force but a compound made up of different elements, Kelly draws from early AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, who proposed that the mind is composed of many smaller “agents” working together. He sees a modern echo of this in the Mixture of Experts architecture used in some LLMs. These are systems where there are multiple specialized models—each focused on a particular type of task or reasoning—and when the system receives an input, it dynamically selects which of these experts to use, assembling different cognitive strategies on the fly.
Taking this modular approach further, Kelly also argues that human intelligence is not a universal standard, but a highly specific and peculiar compound—one that evolved to suit our particular needs as a species. “We’re an edge species,” he says, occupying just one point in the vast “possibility space of all possible minds.” As we build AI, we won’t just replicate ourselves—we’ll populate that space with many kinds of intelligence, some of which may be so unfamiliar that we won’t even recognize them as intelligent at first.
Hi! Really interesting quotes in this podcast re: thinking about how to build for the future. For example...
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We can use LLMs to be more creative, not by replacing our own intuition or taste, but by sharpening our ability to recognize and cultivate those senses—making creativity something we can reliably nurture, rather than merely await.
https://every.to/learning-curve/a-science-based-guide-to-thinking-creatively-with-llms
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