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The Importance of Human Intelligence
The human brain is not a computer though. It certainly has some computational elements as we discussed in the last episode of this podcast where we were thinking somewhat about GPT, large language models and Willing Gibson's neuromancer. Human intelligence or we might say consciousness is a multi-factual, multi-tiered dozens perhaps hundreds of different parts to it. These are the parts that we can currently capture in our artificial intelligence systems or machine learning systems. We also don't have an operating system. Human cognition is not software but what's right about this? Well it's a pretty perfect metaphor. Ideal for our times are point in human civilization and culture where of course computers and machines and
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