Although an exciting book with many thought experiments, I often get baffled by technocrats' and futurists' obsession with reductionism as a philosophy, approach and method.
Like all AI experts, he concludes that the human brain contains a hierarchy of pattern recognisers, and they are responsible for human thought.
Most design thinkers also take this easy route to deduct their analytical abilities. What these intellectuals often forget is intelligence is also about the human ability to generate lies based upon situational demand and stand with facts and truth in every situation is the role of the mind. This play of moral and ethical code of conduct between intelligence and mind is a far more complex phenomenon than mere pattern recognition or building.
Over and above, the entire architecture of artificial intelligence is modelled around the concepts of facts and truth or structures of the mind and not on the structure of intelligence. The day an algorithm starts to lie, break down a model, or conceal a truth, we will consider it as a program failure, because, in our idea of problem-solving with the least possible resources, where time is the most important factor, any interruption or delay due to an aberration(a lie) in the problem-solving is still considered a system design failure.
In other words, let us not forget that intelligence alone is not important in human life, the conscious application of intelligence is the game and unfortunately the idea of consciousness is still stuck in the old schools of spirituality and religious mysticism in our world. It will take a very long time for technology to understand and decipher this aspect of consciousness in intelligence. Until then, all these loud noises about AI are only marching towards another dot com bubble burst.
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