Intelligence is a word that sort of narrows our relationship with what is biologically potential and, therefore, shortchanges our artificial intelligence (AI). Even in our mind, the part that we are made aware of is only a small part of the toolbox; a vast part isn't normally available to consciousness, as we understand it, in everyday life. Underneath, there's not one but many intelligences that aren't even described within our limited defining radius of the known.
We'd not be a working piece of equipment had all these been depending on the slow conscious intelligence that we go to school for. AI today is an extension of just that small part, not the others, and by this, I don't mean anything in the sense of comparison, at least a diminutive one; it's just that we are only at the beginning of the handshake between a part of the conscious learned biological intelligence and what we can in the future do by speeding up evolution.
Evolution, as you understand, works by death, generations, and chance. It tries to accommodate a match between life and its environment and ecosystem, with chance as the arbitrator. And, this is important, at visible macro emergent adaptation levels to invisible quantum biological scale for the millions of molecular machines at work. It's a tweaker and extremely slow at that, but what we'll be able to do is move things faster, or at least the parts of the human organism that we care about, in this case the superficial tip of the human potential, and even that speeded up or augmented is a tremendous gain over the geologic scale of time.
Being a person who's mad, I know there's a huge part that, though we know it, only looking at it through pathology may open windows into aspects of the mind we aren't even aware of. All the depressed and manic people, or with schizophrenia and mood disorders, or autistic people, are that rare lens set that magnify what the potential can be. It's just that there's more abnormal with the normal than the abnormal, and I, for one, am proud to be bipolar; I don't give a rodent's rear anymore.
On one hand, the normal seem to need tutoring and mentoring like I never knew humans could possibly manage to humanly need, and on the other, they are told this additional attention is compulsory because they suffer from a crippling dearth of incapacities we, the mad posses that needs to be repaired before our abnormal lives can be brought back to normal service conditions. You see the problem? No? Then, congratulations you're normal.
The duplicity is that it promises that the only qualification is a willingness to spend on the annual membership for the transformation service. No matter if, on the other end of the credit card, there sits a bipolar quacking duck. They'll continue to make good on the promise or the 1% of the money is returned, no questions answered. Whether this would happen before the heat death of the universe or after, clarified once you've been on the subscription for a while.
