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Human Intelligence, Not Artificial Intelligence



Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about the subject of artificial intelligence, but it struck me today: maybe what we need to focus on is improving human intelligence, ability and performance…







2 Reader Responses

  1. Dan Gould Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Tim, I agree 100%. have a feeling human abilities are far greater than we know. Think modeling geniuses (NLP), super-learning type skills, memory tricks - it goes on and on. This is a big focus of current research for me.

  2. Big Elk Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    Too sleepy to write about this right now, but I’ve been doing some manual labor at a theatre - striking sets, re-arranging furniture, etc and loading in for a new show. Also helped a guy set up a booth last week for a craft fair. And it occurs to me that culturally, we tend to think of jobs like this - manual labor jobs - as “dumb” jobs, things you don’t necessarily have to be skilled or need experience to do. And yet, the small moment-to-moment decision making required in situations like that - each of which is totally novel, with instances deviating from set patterns regularly - is actually quite complex. While we might be moving towards certain types of artificial intelligences, or behaviors which seem to mimic what we think of as “intelligence”, it seems that the span of what’s covered by such things is quite small. That is, even a really “smart” computer would be TERRIBLE at doing something which most people consider a “dumb” job.



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