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The Prospect of ‘More Than Human’ Intelligence

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Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. Across the sciences, we are coming to understand the self-organizing principle of “computation” as the building block of all forms of budding intelligence — from primitive cells to generative AI. This process involves learning from the environment, aggregating information and arranging it by sharing functional instructions through “copying and pasting” code that enables an organism to develop, reproduce and sustain itself. As Blaise Agüera y Arcas and James Manyika write in Noema, “computing existed in nature long before we built the first ‘artificial computers.’ Understanding computing as a natural phenomenon will enable fundamental advances not only in computer science and AI, but also in physics and biology.” Agüera y Arcas is vice president and chief technology officer of Technology & Society at Google. Manyika is senior vice president of Research,

The Prospect of ‘More Than Human’ Intelligence The evolution of computation will render AI “life-like.” Olga Aleksandrova for Noema Magazine Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. Across the sciences, we are coming to understand the self-organizing principle of “computation” as the building block of all forms of budding intelligence — from primitive cells to generative AI. This process involves learning from the environment, aggregating information and arranging it by sharing functional inst

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