[?] Natural Intelligence
When speaking of artificial intelligence, we typically think of machines that can think like humans. However, in an increasingly structured world, that generates massive amounts of data, and that emphasizes analytical speed and power (popularly dubbed the "knowledge-worker age"), are we not training humans to think more like machines? Perhaps we should consider that the quest to bridge the gap between artificial and natural intelligence does not begin by mimicking human, but by mimicking the very machines we create.
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The real question is: why do we want machines to think like humans? What's the benefit? Given the number of humans we have doing brainless things for their jobs, maybe we should focus more on giving them jobs that use their natural intelligence, and create machines to do the brainless activities. We certainly have enough humans in the world - why are we trying so hard to create more? We should spend more on schooling, and make the most of the 5 billion naturally intelligent brains we already have. Not that I have any problem with artifical intelligence - It's just a waste to not use all the natural intelligence we have at our fingertips.
On another note:
Why is it that everyone always thinks natural equates with good, and artificial/man-made equates with bad?
And logically, we consider ourselves, as human to be created by nature. So why are things made by humans called artificial or chemical?
Not that I believe, in the case of this comment, that artificial intelligence is better than natural. I tend, in this case, to be more awe-struck by the natural intelligence. However, the word "natural" has become completely overused and destroyed by modern hippie culture.
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