2019-11-08

Are we considering Artificial Intelligence from a biased viewpoint?



We assume that human intelligence is the highest form of intelligence and compare Artificial Intelligence to the human way of logical behaviour - Touring test, Asimov rules, the way that a child learns abstract things, namely the Artificial General Intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

Taking a look back to human evolution, we survived because we were doing better in larger social groups than any other primate when the environment changed. The adaptation was enabled by our ancestor’s larger frontal cortex that supported abstract language and social cooperation. Because of this evolution, our brains mostly deal with motor control, sensory and regulation. Secondly, they are busy with emotions, social relationships and language, and time to time with actual cognition.

AI intelligence is said to be at a level of a simple animal. However, currently, AI is far better at playing chess and Go than any human being. In games with uncertainty like Texas Hold’em poker and DOTA2, AI is at the level of best human players or teams.

What if thousands of AI entities (IoT) connected (Internet, Bots, 5G) and they are much better in communication and cooperation than human society (team of teams, swarming bees, a colony of ants). Will they outperform us as a network even with less individual intelligence than in a human entity? 

After all, there are organisms like Herpes-virus and parasites like Schistosomiasis in humans that adapt their behaviour according to the host body. Furthermore, some parasites may manipulate the functioning of the host organism like protozoan which cycles between mice and cats. For transaction from mouse to cat the parasite makes mice not afraid of cats, therefore increase the change to get the host mouse captured by a cat. https://www.seeker.com/parasite-brainwashes-mice-to-not-fear-cats-1767894670.html

We have created smart viruses that change their appearance to avoid defence measures in the cyber environment, what prevents us from developing an intelligent micro-organism in physiological/chemical environment and change human behaviour?
Figure from Westefhoff et al (2014):  Macromolecular networks and intelligence in micro-organisms

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