@hardmaru
What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution. Nice essay by @blaiseaguera published in @Nature. Essay: https://t.co/dh1Zu0QElI Some nice ideas in the piece: “Hunting is a prime example of this predictive modelling. A predator must predict actions that will get the prey into its stomach; the prey must predict the predator’s behaviour to stop that from happening. Starting in the 1970s, neuropsychologists and anthropologists began to realize that other intelligent entities are often the most important parts of the environment to model — because they are the ones modelling you back, whether with friendly or hostile intent. Increasingly intelligent predators put evolutionary pressure on their prey to become smarter, and vice versa.” “Humans did not invent computation any more than they did electric current or optical lenses. We merely re-discovered a phenomenon nature had already exploited, developed mathematical theories to understand it better and worked out how to engineer it on a different substrate.”