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The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power—the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments—what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
La quantité d’intelligence humaine, observe-t-il, va décroissant, car les gens ne font plus assez d’enfants. En parallèle, la quantité d’intelligence informatique s’accroît exponentiellement, comme si elle suivait une loi de Moore sous amphétamines. Il arrivera un jour où les capacités intellectuelles biologiques seront dominées par les capacités i
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Elon Musk (Documents) (French Edition)
We don’t know what the full taxonomy of intelligence is right now. Some traits of human thinking will be common (as common as bilateral symmetry, segmentation, and tubular guts are in biology), but the possibility space of viable minds will likely contain traits far outside what we have evolved. It is not necessary that this type of thinking be fas
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
**Note:** AI as religion - something beyond humans’ comprehension that we’re putting faith in“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” This statement makes intuitive sense, but, more importantly, we can point to a concrete example in support of it: the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. ... See more