> Accepting the term "intelligence amplification" does not imply any attempt to increase native human intelligence. The term "intelligence amplification" seems applicable to our goal of augmenting the human intellect in that the entity to be produced will exhibit more of what can be called intelligence than an unaided human could; we will have amplified the intelligence of the human by organizing his intellectual capabilities into higher levels of synergistic structuring.
Now that the computers can talk and think and program themselves, and we can expect them to become exponentially better at it (to some limit, presumed greater-than-human), there is approximately only one problem left: how to select from the options the machines can generate for us.
It's still an open-ended challenge, it's just a new and different challenge from the ones faced by all previous generations. And again, just to repeat for emphasis: this is the only intellectual challenge left. All others are subsumed by it (because the machines can (soon) think better than we can.)
> Accepting the term "intelligence amplification" does not imply any attempt to increase native human intelligence. The term "intelligence amplification" seems applicable to our goal of augmenting the human intellect in that the entity to be produced will exhibit more of what can be called intelligence than an unaided human could; we will have amplified the intelligence of the human by organizing his intellectual capabilities into higher levels of synergistic structuring.
Now that the computers can talk and think and program themselves, and we can expect them to become exponentially better at it (to some limit, presumed greater-than-human), there is approximately only one problem left: how to select from the options the machines can generate for us.
It's still an open-ended challenge, it's just a new and different challenge from the ones faced by all previous generations. And again, just to repeat for emphasis: this is the only intellectual challenge left. All others are subsumed by it (because the machines can (soon) think better than we can.)