Fluid Flow. Image courtesy Dept of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.

Sam Altman has declared that we are entering into “The Intelligence Age,” when articifical intelligences will usher in a world of universal healthcare and first-class education for all, a clean environment, and unimaginable prosperity. In my new Substack post at Science Goddess, I push back against AI hype by considering what we even mean by the term “intelligence”. Beginning with the question “Is Water Intelligent?” I conclude that AGI (artificial general intelligence) is a kind of infomatic delusion, based on narrow, computationally inflected ideas about what constitutes “smart” thinking.

Substack Post:
AGI as Infomatic Delusion: A meditation on the meaning of ‘intelligence’