Humanity has always tried to overcome its limits: from the discovery of the wheel, which broadened our horizons, to modern technologies that they promise to enhance our intelligence, we are witnesses of revolutions that have shaped our destiny.
What will happen today when technology not only amplifies our capabilities, but challenges us to review the very definition of intelligence? Let's talk about evolutionary intelligence.
Let's put the Turing Test aside
With his famous test that entered history, Alan Turing proposed a criterion for determining whether a machine could be considered to have “intelligence”. But there is a fundamental problem with this approach: the test is based on a human-centric view of intelligence.
Intelligence should not be defined simply by our ability to distinguish between a human and a machine in a conversation. After all, humans are notoriously deficient in many areas, often driven by emotions, wishful thinking, and cognitive laziness.
Why would we want to model machine intelligence after us? Evolutionary intelligence is a new model that aims to compensate for the deficiencies of the human cognitive system (also morals and ethics).
Stop thinking that machines will dominate us
Remember when cars were called “horseless carts”? This limited terminology still reflected the vision of transportation built entirely around quadrupeds. Likewise, many of us still see computers as boxes full of microchips: but computers are becoming smaller, more powerful, and more connected.
Soon, they will become completely invisible, integrating seamlessly into our environment and helping us in ways we can't even imagine.
And we want to talk about the AI debate and its potential threat to humanity? Some even called for a pause in AI development due to the potential dangers (except later begin to develop it in turn). But it is essential to distinguish between the human qualities of aggression and competition and the capabilities of machines: humans have these psychological characteristics because they were advantageous to our survival. But the cars? It is not at all certain that they want to subjugate us, on the contrary. The opposite is more likely: that we brutalize them.
Evolutionary Intelligence is a support: we delegate, we don't abdicate
In an age where our privacy seems to be constantly under attack, Evolutionary Intelligence could be the solution. Imagine a world where your personal digital interface negotiates on your behalf every time your personal information is requested.
It might sound like science fiction, but it's just one example of how Evolutionary Intelligence could help us. Technology has the potential to make our lives better, but only if we develop it with an open and informed mind.
Let's strive to create projects that are not necessarily "in our image and likeness" and we will change our future for the better.
