The Future of Intelligence
Part 1: Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
Inspired by a workshop I presented on The Future of Intelligence: Technology in the Age of Intuition.
My guest, Dr Patrick Bangert, is the Vice President of AI for Samsung. He explained how AI and HI (Human Intelligence) are profoundly different and are good at very different things.
Important learnings from our workshop on The Future of Intelligence
1.Terminator is not real.
2. Nor is Terminator 2.
3. Autonomous military systems are a real worry. Lots of people are trying to ban them. Good idea.
4. AI is not what I thought it was. It’s something else. And it is getting more something else at an exponential rate, and evolving as it grows, with unpredictable outcomes.
5. Elon Musk’s ‘humanoid robot prototype 2022’ is a pipe-dream.
6. AI is really good at remembering stuff and calculating stuff and dealing with masses of data. Really big masses = Big Data.
7. AI is dumber than an earthworm when it comes to understanding similarities and anything that requires intuition or creativity. Or emotions. Or knowing that you exist.
8. Humans are capable of one shot learning i.e. learning really fast with little data. But then we forget most of it.
9. Robots learn really slowly, requiring masses of data. But they never forget it. And they share all knowledge with their hive mind. Weird. They also gobble up tons of space and electricity. Our brains are far more efficient.
10. Robots can’t think of anything new or feel love, because 7. So sad.
11. The robots don’t care about 7, because 7.
12. I am surprisingly relieved to understand that robots are not going to take over the world. (Unless they carry out the bidding of an evil Bond Villain) The robots remain unconcerned. Because 7.
13. AI and automation will cause a tsunami of unemployment, globally. Sooner than you think. Because 4. To remain relevant, we need to think about how to leverage and amplify our uniquely human talents. i.e. intuition, compassion, wisdom.
14. The increased profits from automation go to the owner of the means of production. i.e. not you or me. Or Karl Marx. The 1 billion+ lost jobs — that’s what we get.
15. Because 13 we require a completely new economic model, well beyond just UBI. Note to Self: Let’s not ask Karl Marx.
16. Assuming we solve 15, we will have lots more free time because most work will be done by intelligent machines.
17. Because 16, we will need to deliberately seek purposeful and fulfilling ways to spend our increased leisure time.
18. Because 16, we should work on developing our intuition through practices like meditation so that we get better at doing the things AI can’t do so we remain relevant and so we become more self-aware, creative, happy and fulfilled.
19. Time remains the ultimate non-renewable resource. Don’t worry. Love is renewable.
