Define intelligence how you like, there are a few capabilities not in this list which will significantly influence the capabilities of autonomous systems, including how beneficial, threatening or capable they are:
Sensory systems:
Both machines, and future collective intelligences of people and machines, are benefiting from an exponential explosion the ability to sense. Everything is improving at a vast pace: telescopes, microscopes, detection in every wavelength, sound, chemistry, DNA/​RNA sequencing, mass spectrometry, surveillance in thousands of locations, internet of things, the list goes on and on.
If we want to understand the future of intelligence, we have to incorporate the explosion of sensory input into our thinking.
Define intelligence how you like, there are a few capabilities not in this list which will significantly influence the capabilities of autonomous systems, including how beneficial, threatening or capable they are:
Sensory systems:
Both machines, and future collective intelligences of people and machines, are benefiting from an exponential explosion the ability to sense. Everything is improving at a vast pace: telescopes, microscopes, detection in every wavelength, sound, chemistry, DNA/​RNA sequencing, mass spectrometry, surveillance in thousands of locations, internet of things, the list goes on and on.
If we want to understand the future of intelligence, we have to incorporate the explosion of sensory input into our thinking.