🎄 A wild update
New threats create new responsibilities and communities
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”—Alvin Toffler.
As the work year winds down and the holidays ramp up, I wanted to share some updates, but first, I’d like to say a big “thank you” to everybody who reached out to me while I was not publishing for the past three months.
When complex times occur, we’re always asked how we decide to continue what we do.
Sometimes, a pause is necessary to see new horizons ahead and identify new objectives and goals to build the future. Such pauses generally occur between stages in life that vary widely in length and capacity for growth. They are characterized by various cycles, independence of action, and differing from initial structures.
→ I’d love to hear about your feedback and thoughts in the comment section. Please tell me about a time when you have had to analyze and understand a complex situation to make decisions and implement a plan.
With new threats come new responsibilities and unavoidably new communities.
Community — and collaboration — are at the core of this publication.
Here, we will continue to push away the boundaries of our understanding of artificial intelligence and develop new tools for a more sustainable, resilient, and peaceful world.
The emergence of new artificial intelligence tools will not be an isolated event on the human evolution roadmap. From single cells to bipedalism, humans have come a long way.
The next stage, for us humans, is considered to be higher consciousness (some call it “conscious evolution”). Consciousness emerges from the operations of the brain. Are we aware enough of what is going on?
The nervous system has evolved over millions of years, generating various species-specific brains and behavioral capacities. How do we enhance these capacities?
How is it that our conception of artificial1 is a pale translation of our search back to the wildness?
What if humans tend to understand that searching for the North Star leads to adopting a wild focus? More natural, decentralized, and/or less hierarchical.
How can we reach a balance between the evolution of our intelligence and embrace the evolution of nature instead of opposing them?
Why do humans always define the reflection of man-made processes as intelligent?
The tremendous expansion and the differentiation of the neocortex constitute two significant events in the evolution of the mammalian brain. The increase in size and complexity of our brains opened the way to a spectacular development of cognitive and mental skills:
Do we explore these skills enough?
Are we becoming more intelligent?
Where do we stand on the evolution scale?
Is artificial intelligence optimized for our knowledge?
We know that innovation is progressive, but we will need more collaborative intelligence to build new tools to address growing challenges:
Systems that can learn how to automate various tasks, improve work, increase efficiency, and decrease waste,
Machines that are objective-driven and that satisfy fences and gates, then that can plan and reason to address sustainability challenges,
Organizations that can govern openly and clearly develop public and private partnerships.
At first, of course, those machines will be barely more intelligent than rats. But once we can aggregate the right data sets and define the right objectives, we will scale up processes more intelligently and widen the variety of new environments in almost all domains.
As we embark on a new round around the sun, even if the journey requires more effort to gain further understanding of how our world turns, we are uniquely positioned to scale human, environmental, and climate solutions with the tools coming.
We all know that we should be doing systems change as though our lives depend on it.
We are extremely early in translating powerful new models into powerful products that transform industries and, ultimately, our world into a better place.
When I started this newsletter almost three years ago, I never thought it would reach so many brilliant minds and belong to the genuinely talented, kind, thoughtful, and inspiring human beings I work with daily.
Sustainability will always be an essential part of a global state. Yet, as the past year taught me, as we walked through the highlights and lowlights of tech advancements, the dominant factor that will enable us to unlock the steps to change the world for good is based on better business decisions and how we upgrade humanity's knowledge toward a new era.
Today, after this three-month “pause,” I come back with a slightly new format emphasizing “collective” intelligence that is more focused on community and collaboration but has roots deeply anchored on humanity, integrity, and sustainability: welcome to “Wild intelligence.”
To all current and new readers, you are the reason I still love writing and sharing my work. I’m so grateful for you. Thank you for your trust.
I try to say thank you whenever it’s merited, needed, called for… and the end of a long newsletter fit’s all those bills if you ask me.
So, thank you for subscribing and for reading Wild intelligence Newsletter. Thank you for sharing it amongst family and friends and teammates. And if you are one of the paid supporters of this newsletter… thank you for that too. It helps. It really does.
I look forward to seeing everybody in 2024, and I hope everyone takes the opportunity to reach out to each other and share their best thoughts.
Happy Holidays to everyone celebrating,
Yael
Extras
[Watch] Andrew Ng shares a vision for democratizing access to AI, empowering any business to make decisions that will increase their profit and productivity
→ How AI could empower any business
[Watch] Ex-Google officer finally speaks out on the dangers of AI! - Mo Gawdat
→ AI is worse than climate change!
Artificial (adjective) Definition from Oxford Languages (partial)
- made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural. "her skin glowed in the artificial light" (of a situation or concept)
- not existing naturally; contrived or false. "the artificial division of people into age groups"
Yael
Yours is an important and much needed perspective. Getting “wild” and collaborative sounds like a great way to continue to make your valuable contribution.