What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.: Tim O'Reilly
Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
The Global Brain and a I
i had been watching a kind of cambrian explosion in applications for collective intelligence that were qualitatively different from those of the death stop web. Billions of connected humans and devices were being woven into a global brain. That brain was all of us, augmented and connected. This notion is at best a metaphor, but i believe it is a useful one. Anh later on in the book, i pick up i thread again and aand this is what i am talking about a i. I say, when we imagine an artificial intelligence, we assume it will have an individual self, an individual consciousness, just like us. What if instead an a i were more like a multi cellular organism
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