This is a draft and not an article, read with your own critical thinking.
Plato warned that writing would lead to the impoverishment of thought, as this invention would make those who learned it forgetful, no longer striving to remember. Yet writing makes reuse and “recollection” possible—a completely new model. It allows information to be organized in novel structures, divided into fields. The alphabetic writing system, the most simplified and revolutionary of all, appeared the latest, sparked the light of science.
Some time later, with the construction of several experimental lines, the telephone was first introduced in the United States, yet a few take it seriously. “If I want to send a message, I can use a telegraph or send a servant to deliver it.” By 1890, there were half a million telephone users scattered across the USA; by 1914, ten million. By the turn of the century, the telephone industry had surpassed the telegraph in every metric.
How many messages do you think pass in and out of the Empire State?
Without telephones, each message would require a messenger to deliver it.
How many more elevators do you think would be needed?
The progress of mankind always outstrips collective comprehension, misjudgment occurs because, when faced with new technology, people’s imagination often fails. To understand Artificial Intelligence, you must think in terms of energy and time. AI simply enhances humans' capability to control more energy at a given period, to concentrate energy at a given point, to direct and channel energy, and to convert energies from one kind to another.
Humans often rely on intuition, imagination, or sudden insights when solving problems. At first glance, these might seem like non-mechanical calculations, but upon closer examination, they might simply be mechanical calculations with hidden steps. AI works the same, a massive information-processing machine, constantly exchanging bits, transforming quantum states, and processing vast amounts of data. The algorithms that govern AI function similarly to the laws of physics, providing the rules and structures needed to handle and interpret information effectively.
However, Artificial Intelligence will not be made up of a purely rational system based on logic. Why? Because no logic is perfect. Thousands of years of human efforts to create perfect laws have proven this to be impossible and will continue to be so.
AI will be biological, welcome to bet on it. The Wright brothers invented the airplane by studying how birds fly and applying mechanical design principles. The development of the camera copied the human eye’s ability to capture and focus light. The telephone was invented by looking at how the ear works. An interesting experiment showed that bacteria could recreate Tokyo’s metro system based on a small-scale model. AI will work super similarly to humans, biological-like intelligence entities that are bound to the same laws and have a competitive and collaborative relationship with each other, similar to how our brains are comprised of 3 parts.
The AI that will be implemented will be imperfect, full of bias and misconceptions, as its creators are. The first AI to be deployed, if it ever happens, will be far from the most efficient form it could possibly be. The essence of AI is not perfection; it is the scalability of basic human intelligence due to scalability of energy input. With nearly infinite energy supply compared to human beings, a vast amount of information, and more programmable limitations and software, AI is not bound by the physical constraints that humans face. That is the essence of AI—scalability of existing human intelligence.