Impersonating INTELLIGENCE

What exactly is ‘human intelligence’?

Take it one word at a time.

‘Intelligence’ is the power to learn, think, reason, solve problems. The capacity to do something.

‘Intelligent’ is different. It’s more to show good sense, clear reason, smart judgment on the output.

So there’s a split.

Then the ‘human’ part. What’s that?

The key point these days seems to be that it’s not ‘artificial’. So not made or produced, occurring naturally.

AI is mainly talked about in terms of output. Did it work? Was it clever? Did it solve the problem?

And was it quick and cheap?

We all know it does this through pattern-matching. The machine learns to be intelligent by searching through a mountain of what intelligent output looks like.

But does it possess intelligence?

Mmm.

So what is the ‘human’ take on it?

Let’s leave simplistic measures like IQ in the past where they belong.

Let’s also acknowledge there’s such a thing as emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman was writing about that 30 years ago.

You could say the foundations came from Carl Jung 70 years before that. Feeling as a rational, judging function.

So ‘human intelligence’ is partly to do with felt experience. Drawing on a particular life lived.

Which means it’s unique to you.

That makes it, at the very least, a complex collective term. And far from a generic.

In fact, it means it’s human intelligence that makes us who we are, each of us individually. Our own point of differentiation.

I mean, what is this post?

A series of clever-sounding thoughts collated on my behalf by my best mate Claude.

Or an idea I dreamt up in a slight panic this morning, the day before posting day, prompted by yet another LinkedIn comment arguing that human intelligence is the answer to every ill wind blowing through the insight profession.

And then knowing it had to sound like me even with help on the definitions and flow.

Reading it back, I’m not sure it does. A bit tight.

In the end, it’s another post done.

But I have a nagging feeling that if I ever left this blog entirely to Claude, he’d ruin it.

Same with brands.