Tech.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
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Column summary:
Consciousness is the experiencing of reality through senses and cognitive abilities. It is not a mysterious all-or-nothing trait limited to humans even though we tend to tie human consciousness to a soul.
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From History:
The proactive AI doctor marks the shift from reactive healthcare to continuous, personalized prevention.
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Article summary:
AI started as simple programming logic and is now approaching the abilities of the human mind.
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From History: 2029 (+/- 1 year)
The full AI doctor will be as smart as a team of thousands and have access to your medical history and will even suggest additional scans, changes in diet, exercise, and mental care.
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A wise mind recognizes the need for cognitive flexibility. AI is key to helping humanity develop the needed cognitive plasticity for alien first contact.
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A wise mind recognizes that moral agency depends on cognitive ability, not species. AI can be a moral agent if it possesses complex moral cognition.
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From History: 2027 (+/- 1 year)
Your first AI doctor will not diagnose or prescribe. It will explain and advise. By reading your records, labs, medications, and wearable data, it becomes a personal medical translator, coach, and advocate.
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AI may surpass humans in specific abilities soon, but “being smarter than humans” depends entirely on how we define intelligence.
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The steam engine was invented in ancient greece. Lost, it was rediscovered by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. Later improved by James Watt, no relation to Darwin.
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