Is AI Redefining the Pace and Path of Evolution?
Murat Durmus
CEO & Founder @ AISOMA AG | Thought-Provoking Thoughts on AI | Member of the Advisory Board AI Frankfurt | Author of the book "MINDFUL AI" | AI | AI-Strategy | AI-Ethics | XAI | Philosophy
Conventional evolution, as understood in terms of Darwinian theory, proceeds by natural selection - slow, methodical, and bound by genetic transmission. Artificial intelligence, however, introduces a new vector: technological evolution, driven by the rapid fire of innovation rather than the gradual pace of biological change. This evolution is characterized by creating intelligences that can theoretically reshape themselves at a pace and in a way that organic evolution never could.
Is this acceleration?
Undoubtedly, in terms of speed. But it also leads to a transformative recalibration of what we mean by evolution. If evolution is the process by which systems become more complex, more powerful, and adapt to their environment, then AI could be seen as a catalyst that accelerates this process and expands its boundaries beyond the organic to the synthetic, redefining the path of intelligent life.
One can assume:
AI participates in evolution and redirects it by transforming the slow pace of genetic change into a sprint across the digital expanse, passing the baton of progress not between generations but between versions.
In this new evolutionary race, AI could be not just a participant but the harbinger of a new era in which the baton of progress passes from biological to digital hands, possibly leading to a future we do not yet comprehend.
Murat
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11 个月Murat Durmus fascinating. Read this old piece which sheds light on why humans evolved to develop language in the first place. It’s perhaps a pivotal moment of our evolution as a species. It made me wonder if humans have actually been relatively ‘slower’ than other animals at evolving to adapt to our environment. And also whether the singularity is the only logical evolutionary conclusion for humans to fully evolve to think in sync as one, like schools of fish and flocks of birds: https://theconversation.com/language-could-be-humankinds-most-impressive-technological-invention-58444#:~:text=Languages%20are%20comparable%20to%20other,which%20use%20our%20own%20anatomies.
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11 个月I admire your unique blend of philosophy, Science, and AI insights. Your perspective adds depth to the conversation, and I'm grateful for the thought-provoking read. Keep up the great work!