There’s a really great interview out this week with Mustafa Suleyman that anyone interested in #AI and the direction of tech over the next years and decades should watch.

One of his answers touched on “is artificial intelligence inevitable”. I believe so, because its foundation is mathematics, which is inherent to the universe. Maybe AI is inherent too.

The first time I encountered this idea was Contact by Carl Sagan. Sagan suggested mathematics was the common language of the universe, an idea voiced centuries earlier by Galileo, and probably other philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists before him.

If you accept the idea that mathematics is baked into the structure of the universe, waiting to be discovered, does that imply intelligence as we understand it, derived from math, would be too? I don’t know, but it feels plausible.

There must be an infinite number of paths to the universal standard of intelligence. Ours is extremely immature, only several thousand earth years old. Our current version of AI is only a few years old, almost certainly a dead end, but a promising start that will absolutely lead to discoveries we can’t even imagine today.

This does also beg the question though, how inevitable was our own intelligence? Or was it always inherent too?

www.youtube.com/watch