Are you ready for a world of different Intelligences? (human, artificial, and all the others)

Is Elon Musk's thought-playing video game male macaque?intelligent??Is the facial recognition "Artificial Intelligence" on your smartphone intelligent? Is the super-technological, hyper-connected car that will drive itself intelligent??Can we use this term "intelligent" for objects, albeit 'artificial intelligent' ones? For animals? For plants? Flowers?

Do algorithms have anything to do with intelligence, as we understand it??

A widespread definition of intelligence may be: "Complex of psychic and mental faculties that allow to think, understand or explain facts or actions, elaborate abstract models of reality, understand and be understood by others, judge, and (the) make it together capable of adapting to new situations and modify the situation itself when..."?and so on.

Is this okay? Can we connect this extraordinary faculty not only to humans but also to animals, objects and every other entity on the planet, including plants and flowers??

Let's try to question it or, better said, let's try to go around it in order to find new ways of interpretation consistent with its meaning.

In the history of human psychology, for many years, it was believed that intelligence was a unitary concept, referred to a single mental capacity, sometimes called IQ (intelligence quotient). But the most current theories, including those of Daniel Goleman (American super-expert in clinical psychology and personality development) and Howard Gardner, have clearly shown us that human intelligences are multiple, completely different from each other, often even totally separate (mathematicians, writers, musicians, sportsmen, psychologists, salesmen, etc, use totally different intelligences).?

We have this every day (and in all fields), don't we?

Well, the same concept applies to artificial intelligence, where we actually have many "intelligences", skills, approaches, technologies, totally different from each other, at least as different as the different human intelligences are... Finally, we have numerous forms of intelligences present in the plant and animal world, which have always coexisted with us.

Let's start by taking note of this analysis. It seems obvious for some aspects, but it is not at all when we move from the simple observation to the application of possible related theories. We are adding factors and the product could change resoundingly. In fact, our future will depend more and more on how much we will be able to make all these intelligences coexist - and collaborate with each other - in a positive way.

An important consequence of this is that we do away (it's about time!) with the recurring question: will artificial intelligence ever be superior to human intelligence? with a lot of theories attached and connected starting from Ray Kurzwell on the singularity that - according to the American inventor and essayist theorist of human immortality through technology - is a point in the history of humankind in which technological progress goes beyond the ability to understand and predict human beings. With all the inscrutable that goes with it.

Some doubts from many quarters (including some very authoritative ones) about this theory were legitimate but I think this just "does not make sense", as it is not one artificial intelligence taking over one human intelligence: it's about completely different "intelligences" interacting and - hopefully - collaborating.

Our future will lie not in making 'artificial intelligences' more intelligent, but in making our human intelligences more intelligent, in synergy with all the other new forms of intelligence that we are creating, with technology, and in harmony with all the intelligences that have always been present in nature and on our planet, which we must protect.?

Man and woman at the center and the intelligences that revolve around them. A constellation. Contraindications? we should not fear artificial intelligence but natural stupidity, the real threat in the management of intelligences.... as an example: from the analysis of the data of the majority of the western companies we can see that in the scale of the managerial values unfortunately emerge mostly men, also largely white. The reported algorithm, as a result, immediately would learn that it is "intelligent" to hire and/or promote white men, because it sees in the company's data that they are the most successful. It's up to us (humans), with our very human intelligence, to be fair to enter the algorithm and say that gender, rather than skin color, should not be considered when deciding who to promote and who to hire... it's up to us to make it fair, and that's why I talk about natural stupidity, for those who might not perhaps use AI for the good of society, all of us, and the planet.?

In contrast, here are some examples of how the new ecosystem of Intelligences may interact in a positive way: "When we interview people who work in an AI-oriented company, most respond that it has become more fun, interesting and creative; that they can spend more time on innovation and learning. The boring part of the job, data entry for example, has been devolved to AI as well as many other 'mechanical' tasks.?And again: we have created a platform (with MIP Politecnico di Milano) that uses AI to help students understand which courses to choose, which books to consider reading or which experts to follow or how to orient their choices: a real digital mentor. Not to mention Phyd (with Adecco) that create an employability index of individuals helping them create the training path to be able to reach a certain job position, whether it's their first job or for those who want to find new professional opportunities... The world of training experiences a magnificent synthesis in the synergy between artificial and human intelligence, which are not antagonistic.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Let's create it using - in the best possible way - all the different intelligences we have (and we will have) around us...

p.s. article based on a recent interview I had with Enzo Argante (Forbes, Director Dearete)