Will AI develop better intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom (ikw)?

May 27, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming the best technology (tool and method) for developing intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom (ikw). This "ikw" is the key to creating a good life (i.e. a productive and enjoyable existence). 

What is intelligence?

Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge and develop skills to achieve wisdom. Below, the proposition that all intelligence comes from data processing, and that without data processing there is no intelligence. Before, brief questions and answers about what is knowledge, what are skills, how are knowledge and skill acquired, what is wisdom and how it is acquired. After that, a brief observation about how AI may be the best technology (tool and method) for the acquisition of intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom (ikw). 

What is knowledge?

Knowledge is awareness of events; understanding of causality of those events; and mastery predicting those events.

• Awareness comes from "sensing" (i.e. registering) changes in environmental variables. Biological cells develop environmental awareness by registering reactions to changes in the environment. 

• Understanding causality comes from learning (connecting neurally) which processed reactions (PR) to changes in the environment lead to which internal results.

• Mastery of predictability comes from recognizing what changes in which variables correspond to which changes in what environmental events. 

How is knowledge acquired?

The Three Es of Learning. Knowledge is acquired from learning which comes from experience, experimentation, and education (EEE) or the "3Es of learning". 

• Experience is perceiving reactions (PR) to an event (i.e. a change in environmental variables). Experiencing a change entails perceiving reactions (PR) to the environmental change and reactions

• Experimentation is forcing an event to register its processed reactions (PR).             

•  Education is going over the processed reactions (PR) to an experience or experimentation. 

What are skills?

Skills are applied knowledge. Skills are are learned and developed by practice. Procedural repetition (PR) of synaptic connections enforce the connections, leading to learning and development of skills.

What is wisdom?

Wisdom is optimal agency (choice or decision-making) by applying knowledge and skills to obtain desired results and avoid undesirable ones.

How is ikw developed?

Developing ikw (intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom) is all about data processing. That is, it's all about the intake of certain input, and its processing (applying a function) to generate an output. In living organisms, the cells are the data processing units. In artificial units, the microprocessors are the data processing units. 

To be continued. It's clear where this is going. The better the data processing, the better ikw. The better ikw, the best life possible.

Stay tuned. 

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