| oblig. https://xkcd.com/903/ We already have amplified memory (see also: books, mnemonics). and google amplifies retrieval. But what is "intelligence", that we might amplify it? For me, limited short-term working memory is an obstacle (EWD's "limited size of skull"). As complexity is added, earlier parts drop out. There is the "technology" of hierarchical decomposition and the pyschological instinct of chunking, but every problem has irreducible complexity... if this is greater than my working memory, I cannot grasp it. Artificially enhanced working memory may help here, but I suspect the limit is due not so much short-term memory itself, but it having associations throughout all long-term memory. That is, it's less a cache limit than a bandwidth limit, interconnecting with the entire mind. We aren't Von Neumann architectured. PS: there's an argument that we might not be able to grasp intelligence itself, if its and its components' irreducible complexity is greater than any person's working memory - even if we formalize a correct model, we mightn't grasp it ourselves. Thus, IA may be essential for AI. Or, AI is essential for AI. |