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Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry. (So?)

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Computer scientists have overcome a major obstacle in the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry by showing it is possible to speed up deep learning technology without specialized acceleration hardware like graphics processing units (GPUs). “The flipside, compared to GPU, is that we require a big memory,” researchers said. (1)

We define intelligence with relation to power.

Power to perform calculations.

Power to process data.

Power to draw conclusions.

But there is no conclusion which is not superceded by a next one.

There is no data which is not refuted by other.

There are no calculations that we do not cancel by performing new ones.

At the end we will create the most powerful computers.

And they will perform calculations we will not be able to understand.

Except for an old man.

Sitting by the river.

Understanding nothing…

And in the midst of a storm. The river will dry.

Clever raccoon. Wise humans?

A raccoon managed to solve an intelligence problem by bypassing it.

In a study, the researchers set up a cylinder with a floating marshmallow too low for the raccoons to grab. For the training session, the team balanced some stones on the rim of the tube. When the raccoons knocked them in, it showed how dropping stones in the water would raise the height. Once this had been done, the researchers set up the experiment again, this time with stones on the ground.

Two of the eight raccoons realized that if they pick up these stones, they can use them to bring up the height of the water and reach the delicious marshmallow.

But a third sneaky raccoon managed to create an entirely new method – tipping the entire, very heavy tube so the sugary snack would just come out with the water.

Birds certainly haven’t done that before, as far as we know. (1)

Being clever is about solving problems.

Being very clever is about solving a different problem than the one presented.

Being wise is about thinking there is no problem at all.

We value cleverness. But we misinterpret wisdom for stupidity.

When someone does not see or understand the problems we have, we insist that he is not-so-intelligent simply because he does not share our image of the cosmos. Most of the times we are right. The world is full of stupid people. But sometimes, just sometimes, we are wrong. And the “stupid” old man standing by us is wiser than we can ever imagine.

A racoon throws rocks into the tube to eat.

A smart racoon overturns the tube to eat.

A man admires the racoon.

A wise man does not even want to eat…

Is consciousness more important than intelligence? Work. Humans. Doing nothing.

Until today, high intelligence always went hand-in-hand with a developed consciousness. Only conscious beings could perform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, such as playing chess, driving cars, diagnosing diseases or writing articles.

However, today we are developing new types of non-conscious intelligence that can perform these tasks far better than humans. This raises a novel question: which of the two is really important, intelligence or consciousness?

The conscious experiences of a flesh-and-blood taxi driver are infinitely richer than those of Google’s self-driving car, which feels nothing. But what the system needs from a taxi driver is to bring passengers from point A to point B as quickly, safely and cheaply as possible. And Google’s self-driving car will soon be able to do that far better than a human driver. The same goes for mechanics, lawyers, soldiers, doctors, teachers — and even computer engineers. (1)

It may sound correct, but it is more than but.

Work has always been ideal for machines.
Humans are not made to work.
They are meant to Be.

Dasein.

Our purpose in this world.
Not assembling cars or driving cars.
Every molecule or lifeless matter structure can perform “work”.

As for humans…
They actually do the most,
when they do nothing…

Idiocracy…

Is human intelligence rising with every generation? (1) wonders an article…

Voters Prefer Candidates Who Look Healthy Rather Than Intelligent, is the title of another article. (2)

What do you think?

Is it logical to believe that evolution prefers the survival of the more intelligent?
Do you see people with high IQ reproduce in similar rates to people of IQ?
Intelligent people usually see more things than less intelligent people do.
And these things usually make them more reluctant to make children.
On the other hand less intelligent people just… fuck!
It may sound crude and rude, but this is just how it is.

Let the world evolve.
Let the world be stupid.

Then call back an intelligent designer.
To bring things back to order…

Cities. Smart people. Stupid people…

Cities are more crowded, more polluted, and more stressful to live in than any other kind of man-made environment in the world. But they are also where the smartest people want to live. A new study of American mobility patterns suggests that people with higher intelligence are more likely to be moving in and out of cities. Among them, those individuals who originate from rural towns exhibit the highest forms of intelligence. The findings, now online, will be published in the September/October issue of the journal Intelligence. (1)

Sure.

I don’t know about you, but I believe that maybe the researchers should stress the “out of cities” in their conclusions. Sure everyone living in cities looks too much intelligent when he is trying to pass between cars and get to an unhealthy work he does not even like doing, just to earn some money and go to holiday on the… countryside where the “stupid” people live…

Think again.
The ones who seem stupid are the really intelligent ones.
The ones who believe are intelligent are…
Well, you know…

Stop being arrogant.
You are not the center of the world.
You are not the center of anything.
You can be the center though.
If only you choose not to be in it…