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These "Alt Intelligence" people assume that there is only the need of "critical mass" until AI becomes human-alike, aka cognitive. There is one thing they forgot, namely that components of this critical mass have to have some properties, which will arise to the desired process. These components are able to (re)combine with each other to …
These "Alt Intelligence" people assume that there is only the need of "critical mass" until AI becomes human-alike, aka cognitive. There is one thing they forgot, namely that components of this critical mass have to have some properties, which will arise to the desired process. These components are able to (re)combine with each other to create higher forms of organization, aka groups and networks which we call objects. Data however does not (re)combine alone.
This "Alt Intelligence" movement reminds me of an episode in human history.
In ancient Greece there was a movement, which called itself Sofia, that means wisdom. The biggest question was: What is more important, what man knows or what man can achieve with it? Their supporters decided to choose the second possibility as the appropriate answer. Their tool was the rhetoric. The same way the petals of a flower can be torn apart from each other, exactly the same way they tore up everything known to pieces, laws as well as common sense, until there was only one single statement left: "Man is the unit of measurement for all things." Each man should bring, his own interests to public attention. How? "You must have the ability to convert the weaker thing into a stronger one." After the initial enthusiasm, the general confusion came, namely civil war.