I was late to vote to put it mildly, but nonetheless… The Power of Intellect. This is probably what impressed me the most and changed my attitude towards intelligence like Spock. From memory: a gun is stronger than the brain. As if people were born with them. Social skills are more important than intelligence. As if charisma is in the kidneys. Money is more powerful than the mind. As if they grew on trees. And people ask how AI can make money when it only has a mind. A million years ago, soft creatures roamed the savanna, and you would call it absurd to claim that they will rule the planet, and not lions. Soft Creatures have no armor, claws or poison. How could they work metal if they don’t breathe fire? If you say that they split the nucleus of an atom, then this is just nonsense, they are not even radioactive. And evolution will not have time to work here, because it’s just that no one can reproduce so fast as to get all these results in just a million years. But the brain is more dangerous than nuclear weapons, because the brain generates nuclear weapons and things are even more dangerous. Look at the difference between man and monkey. And now tell me what artificial intelligence can’t do. Heal all diseases and old age, invent a unified field theory and solve the millennium problems, create nanotechnology and colonize other galaxies. Do you really think he can do so little?
P.S. I chose it not only because, in addition to being important, he is also impressive, but also because, unlike others, in this form he unites and conveys not one, but many important thoughts at once: a false separation of social skills from intellect and the idea that he is intellectual the character should not have them, the capabilities of AI, its enormous speed of its development and the degree of influence comparable to the emergence of a new species, the correct intuition about intelligence as the difference between a man and a monkey, and not Einstein and a peasant, an understanding that intelligence is stronger than any technology, because that he creates them, abilities for good future and dangers of AI.
I was late to vote to put it mildly, but nonetheless… The Power of Intellect. This is probably what impressed me the most and changed my attitude towards intelligence like Spock. From memory: a gun is stronger than the brain. As if people were born with them. Social skills are more important than intelligence. As if charisma is in the kidneys. Money is more powerful than the mind. As if they grew on trees. And people ask how AI can make money when it only has a mind. A million years ago, soft creatures roamed the savanna, and you would call it absurd to claim that they will rule the planet, and not lions. Soft Creatures have no armor, claws or poison. How could they work metal if they don’t breathe fire? If you say that they split the nucleus of an atom, then this is just nonsense, they are not even radioactive. And evolution will not have time to work here, because it’s just that no one can reproduce so fast as to get all these results in just a million years. But the brain is more dangerous than nuclear weapons, because the brain generates nuclear weapons and things are even more dangerous. Look at the difference between man and monkey. And now tell me what artificial intelligence can’t do. Heal all diseases and old age, invent a unified field theory and solve the millennium problems, create nanotechnology and colonize other galaxies. Do you really think he can do so little? P.S. I chose it not only because, in addition to being important, he is also impressive, but also because, unlike others, in this form he unites and conveys not one, but many important thoughts at once: a false separation of social skills from intellect and the idea that he is intellectual the character should not have them, the capabilities of AI, its enormous speed of its development and the degree of influence comparable to the emergence of a new species, the correct intuition about intelligence as the difference between a man and a monkey, and not Einstein and a peasant, an understanding that intelligence is stronger than any technology, because that he creates them, abilities for good future and dangers of AI.