Continuing with Daniel Levitin's The World in Six Songs, I'm inspired to dwell on a thought experiment about artificial intelligence. One could argue that our social networks are becoming shallower and more common. Blogging networks, then Myspace and Facebook, and now Twitter- the pattern is quicker communication with less depth. Does this necessarily mean less intelligence?
If one were to counter that popular theme, what would be the crux of the argument?
Daniel Levitin, TWISS, p. 269
"An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and voila! The system-as-a-whole demonstrates spontaneous intelligence."
Using Twitter's 140 character messages as analogous to neurons, can we imagine a Twitter cloud gaining intelligence?
Yes, it's sci-fi, but fun, nonetheless.
It's Twitter's World, we just post in it.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
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