Human History, Human Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
For further materials on the history of human intelligence and on its impact on artificial intelligence, click HERE.
Don’s YouTube Videos
—The Nature of Human Intelligence playlist:
- Future of Life Submission
- View the Annotated Bibliography of supporting Research Materials for the Nature of Human Intelligence playlist
- The Fallacy of Individualism (click to see video) – Get typescript version HERE
- How Humans Know Right from Wrong – Thank Darwin (click to see video) – Get typescript version HERE
- How Humans Know Who to Trust – Thank Darwin (click to see video) – Get typescript version HERE
— Building Boats
- Building an Electric Power Cruiser from a Converted Sailboat Hull (click to see video)
- Building the Fishing Vessel “Nightwings” (click to see video)
Don’s other research and technical writings
Don’s research, writing, and videos have been aimed at understanding the true nature of the existential and environmental threats we humans face. In the environmental arena, that means finding realistic and effective ways to improve environmental performance without driving farms, fisheries, or other activities out of business and farmland into development and to improve salmon habitat in a way that respects the needs of natural resource businesses like farming and commercial fisheries . In the arena of artificial intelligence, that means exploring the nature of intelligence and undertaking to understand the likely point of view of a new “artificial consciousness” we humans are likely to encounter in the years ahead.
These materials are provided here as a service, to enhance public access to practical information about farming and the environment and about the future of human and artificial intelligence.
For additional information on the future of human and artificial intelligence and, in particular, on the likely points of view involved, you may wish to take a look at a brief annotated bibliography Don has assembled: AI’s and Humans: A Representative Annotated Bibliography, which should provide some academic and other background literature for someone who wishes to delve deeper.