concept

machine intelligence

Also known as: machine intelligences

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Epstein: A Forensic Reconstruction of the Transhumanist Research ... bryantmcgill.substack.com Bryant McGill · Substack Jan 31, 2026 2 facts
perspectiveThe author argues that the events surrounding the scandal are not about isolated personalities but about humanity's reckoning with the long-term, quiet arrival of machine intelligence.
claimBryant McGill claims that the prehistory of machine intelligence involves early search, telecommunications, and anticipatory retrieval systems that matured decades earlier than most contemporary artificial intelligence narratives admit.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology Nov 25, 2024 2 facts
claimConscious biological species assign meaning as consciousness evolves, effectively instructing themselves over generations in a way that current machine intelligences are not designed to do.
claimMachine intelligence suffers from a deficit in assigning meaning to inputs because it requires specific instructions to do so, unlike biological systems that utilize species memory.
Psychedelics and Consciousness: Distinctions, Demarcations, and ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua David B Yaden, Matthew W Johnson, Roland R Griffiths, Manoj K Doss, Albert Garcia-Romeu, Sandeep Nayak, Natalie Gukasyan, Brian N Mathur, Frederick S Barrett · Oxford University Press 1 fact
referenceTuring published 'Computing machinery and intelligence' in the journal Mind, which addresses the potential for machine intelligence.
Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv Jul 1, 2025 1 fact
referenceFrançois Chollet's 2019 paper 'On the measure of intelligence' proposes a framework for evaluating machine intelligence.