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Communication leads to intelligence
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The basic idea of the living world consists in transmitting to future generations what is considered important for survival. Over time, a collective memory was created. The modality of transmitting information was complex: from signs to body language, from drawings to speaking as such, from chopped stone to magnetic support. Communication eventually reached various performances.
The last two variants of communication always assumed a certain technology by means of which communication as such could be made: seeing, speaking, writing, reading. Under such circumstances, we should notice the fact that whereas some people had direct access to this collective memory, other people had an indirect access by traditions and habits.
It is common knowledge that an immediate connection between natural intelligence and the modality of transmitting information and knowledge among the members of a community is made directly. Consider, for instance, the situation of children raised in the wild, who take over the collective memory of the animals with which they live.
In other words, from the beginnings of mankind to the present, people tackled the issue of sharing information among the members of the same community or of different communities, of the same times or of different times. A first stage consisted in the communication based on simple drawings. This communication modality was simple and accessible to all people without needing additional training, because everything was visual!
When will a computer "grow up"?
As we consider the evolutionary character of artificial intelligence, we naturally wonder When will a computer "grow up"? — when we could speak of an "artificial intelligence" of matter, and have contextual procedures that cover most circumstances that occur. In other words, we speak of a transmitted intelligence based on limited, difficult-to-generalize case studies.
Anyway, there are situations of denial of natural intelligence — and we have to acknowledge that, once "formatted," the raw matter of natural intelligence can hardly ever be recovered. We are speaking of children grown in the wild, who lose some of the partial characteristics of their natural intelligence — for example the capacity of formulating sentences even if they have a quite rich vocabulary.
People start learning when they are young! They learn from others' experience (by the rules transmitted via various modalities); they learn from their own experience (by the rules they compile).
We all accept the idea that natural intelligence is specific to the living world, and from this perspective we cannot imagine that humankind will ever reach that level of development that would enable the simulation of natural intelligence in full detail. We think this could be possible only to a certain extent, only if a hybrid system between the living cell and the technical system is made — the so-called bio-techno-system. But one should not misunderstand this idea! The bio-techno-system does not assume the achievement of a technical system having incorporated a sequence of software procedures to simulate the biological system, but the coupling of a living organism and of a technical system where the informational interaction is made by means of the computer system.
Some limits of artificial intelligence
We see on various Internet sites posted discussions, courses and opinions on the future performance of artificial intelligence application fields.
Nevertheless, the specialists in the field are challenged to create equipment and software able to cope with the performance of the human brain. There are assessments of time and memory requirements, operation speed, ethics regarding how such an artificial intelligence system should look and operate. There are even worries that humankind will have to face an additional risk if some intelligent informatic entities are not restricted in running processes and in making major decisions, if they can program themselves (re-writing codes, re-compiling), etc.