The Key Role of Intuition in AI
Putting your hand on a boiling stove is obviously not recommended. But is keeping your hand, or any other part of your body, away from intense heat a rational move or an intuitive one?
?The avoidance of danger like extreme heat is an intuitive, subconscious process. The cells in the mind-body rightly predict that touching such heat is very dangerous and threatening and therefore subconsciously move your body parts away from the danger. Objectively it is also a rational decision but its origin is intuitive.
?The mind-body has neurons and other cells constantly making predictions about bodily movements. Even when walking, those neurons are sensing where the different parts of you are and whether they are in synch. If you’re out of balance, they will instantly make adjustments to prevent a fall – all without your conscious intention.
?San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana famously said.. “When I was playing, I wasn’t conscious.” He didn’t mean he was in a coma, but that extensive practice made his movements automatic. Indeed, any outstanding athletic performance is based on subconscious routines. Do you think that Simone Biles is consciously thinking about how to twist and turn as she is running towards the vault?
?Much of life is thus determined by experience, practice and? survival-inspired subconscious cellular communication and action.
?The subconscious is the encyclopedia of you. It is a register of every experience you have ever had, along with implicit rules for safety and survival. Rationality was developed as a bounded system to make sense of these intuitive feelings. The subconscious? doesn’t speak a language and only communicates feeling. Rationality is a linguistic way of making sense of those feelings.
?What about events that are not directly experienced by you? How are those events interpreted if the mind-body doesn’t have any direct sensation of them?
?In these situations we are likely to become more objective. However, our objective assessment of independent events is influenced by our own relevant experiences.
?If the weatherman claims that a major storm is heading our way, our interpretation of that statement and possibilities will be influenced by our own experience of such weather and related events. The person who has never experienced a significant storm might be cynical and dismissive, but someone who has had a traumatic storm encounter will think differently.
?In short, our intuition shapes our response to factual and probabilistic information.
?Now, you might argue that such intuition is “irrational” but it isn’t.? Our feelings and subconscious intuition comes first, logic second. The same set of facts will mean different things to different people.
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?That is why IntualityAI has been using a system that merges human intuition with large data sets to produce the best predictions in various sectors, like sports, financial markets and health for more than a decade.
?Grant Renier, founder of IntualityAI and his team have just released a book called Intuitive Intelligence: How Human Instincts and Predictive AI are Shaping the Future of Technology
?The first chapter of the book is Intuition: The key to AI Thriving in a Human World.
?You can access the book here: https://amzn.to/3BpmOoR
Howard Rankin PhD Science Director IntualityAI
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