NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (NI) & SUPERINTELLIGENCE (AI ->SI) What a 100-Year-Old Banyan Tree Teaches Us About Nature’s Intelligence and the Future of AI A Humble Reflection on How One Living Tree - and the Vast Cosmos Beyond - Can Guide Us Toward a More Harmonious Artificial & Superintelligence (ASI) "Katrathu Kai Mann Alavu, Kallathathu Ulagalavu" (கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு) — Avvaiyar, Legendary Ancient Tamil Poet & Philosopher " What one knows is merely a handful of sand; what remains unknown is the size of the world ." ENVIRONMENT • BIOLOGY • DATA • NATURAL INTELLIGENCE • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE • SUPER INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence is advancing at extraordinary speed. Large language models can write, reason, generate images, analyze scientific information and increasingly operate as agents. The next frontier - Artificial Super Intelligence, or ASI, is often imagined as a system capable o...
The Birds’ Spot I survey the quaint, calm landscape of my backyard, With my eyes shining full of jubilance. I stop and look at a cozy area, somehow more intriguing than the rest. Why not investigate? I curiously thought. My ponderings swirled in and around my mind. Then, quickly and suddenly! An idea struck the spot! It’s almost too good to be true, but The area’s perfect for a dear family of birds. They chirp all day long joyfully, uttering their carefree comments, As if nothing else mattered in the world. The soft, lush grass, And the crunchy vegetation would be the floor. The broad, emerald leaves of the majestic oak, Intertwined with gossamer threads of spider silk, Is surely the canopy. Here comes the parasite chandelier, Looking exactly like an old man’s beard. Now here’s the main part! The unique and gloriou...