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AI, IA, and AIA
- memexy 6y agoThis is a pretty good article about technology as a means of augmenting human intelligence. Doug Engelbart's vision of a runaway AGI was about augmenting groups of humans so that they could accelerate their own progress. By constantly re-applying what they had discovered to their current work he imagined the group becoming ever more effective at solving harder and harder problems. That's what runaway AGI looks like. It's a group of humans solving problems through the use of technology and collaboration that they couldn't solve on their own. > In 1962 — decades before Garry Kasparov played chess with centaurs, years before the early internet was invented, even a while before the first supercomputer — Doug Engelbart was investigating how our tools shape our thoughts. At the time, most of Doug’s peers just saw computers as a way to crunch numbers faster. However, he saw something deeper: he saw a way to augment the human mind.