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I think you’re conflating things. It’s not a single human brain. It’s processing power to provide the human trove of knowledge and reasoning at the beck and call of millions of people nearly simultaneously. No single person would be able to do that.

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It's a laudable goal to match human intelligence but we can't ignore the cost for too long. If humans can create the same reasoning for cheaper why would we chug along on this path? And this may be the case when the AI hype bubble pops and real economics take over.

This is not the intelligence of one person, even the most intelligent person but rather the intelligence (wisdom) of the whole crowd -the whole world democratized (I.e. available to everyone for a nominal fee).

That’s an important difference.

No, but we had done a pretty good job of storing and indexing it all on this thing called the Internet.

And for the same purpose before that we had, or rather have, since it is still very much in use today, the Dewey Decimal System. Peering further onward still into the annals of library science, one can find even more creative and revealing methods of indexing human knowledge. In doing so, one might even be inclined to believe that the state of the science has come so far as to be considered solved. Alas.

I think if you went to the library and asked for information on "how to build a chicken coop" and the librarian took 60 books related to chickens and building and farming, cut up the words in them, then arranged them in a way they found satisfying, you might start going to a different library.

> It’s processing power to provide produce near unlimited spam and millions of pictures of shrimp jesus

ftfy

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