I recorded this podcast in January and completely forgot about it! That was a memory question. And that's why it's coming out now.

Jean Piaget once said that intelligence is not about what we know, but what we do when we don't know. How we figure things out when we're in new territory or out of our depth.

The problem with AI is that it works by drawing on data and on what is known, on memory, and on the way things have happened thus far.

That's not true intelligence. Human intelligence is better at dealing with the unknown.

So AI is unlikely to be as wondrous in its problem-solving capacities as tech-bedazzled AI cultists would like us to believe.

And there's a hidden twist here concerning human intelligence - it's in the podcast!

Recorded in January 2024, down by an old silted-up millpond in the stream below our farm. 27 mins long.

With love, Palden.