Episode 8.99: Why neither human nor artificial intelligence is what we suppose; some implications.

Human beings like to think that their intelligence arises in the deliberate, conscious application of logical processes to the solution of a problem. They are mistaken. Intelligence manifests itself as a result of the activities of a brain that we do not begin to understand and over which we have almost no control. In these respects, human brains are very much like chatbots with their black box “mentalities”: neither has much control over the problems it can solve and those it can’t.