Why we need to create AI that thinks in ways that we can’t even imagine.
Written in 2017. Here are just a few possible new minds:
• A global supermind composed of millions of individual dumb minds in concert.
• A hive mind made of many very smart minds, but unaware it/they are a hive.
• A borg supermind composed of many smart minds that are very aware they form a unity.
• A mind trained and dedicated to enhancing your mind but useless to anyone else.
• A mind capable of creating a greater mind that can create a greater mind, etc.
• A mind with operational access to its source code, so it can routinely mess with its processes.
• A dynamic mind capable of changing the process and character of its cognition.
• A half-machine, half-animal symbiont mind.
• A mind using quantum computing whose logic is not understandable to us.
- Written by Kevin Kelly in 2017
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