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Blaise Agüera y Arcas | What is Intelligence? | Long Now Talks - YouTube

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas examines the shift from narrow artificial intelligence to general intelligence, arguing that neural net scale and data volume are key drivers. The talk explores computational biology and how universal computation underlies life itself, illustrated by early experiments in emergent complexity. Follow along using the transcript. Blaise Agüera y Arcas examines the shift from narrow artificial intelligence to general intelligence, arguing that neural net scale and data volume are key drivers. The talk explores computational biology and how universal computation underlies life itself, illustrated by early experiments in emergent complexity. Follow along using the transcript.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s Long Now Talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things combine to make larger things all the time. We might think of humanity in terms of the individual — but we're already part of everything we're creating, which is in turn co-creating us. In the story of technology and humanity, are we distinct from the technologies that we make? Agüera y Arcas' cuts through the essentialist dogma with a…

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