I find this to be a very helpful way to think about AI

> Venkatesh Rao proposes that Artificial Intelligence is actually Artificial Time, that it compresses decades, centuries of learning in hours and minutes and makes it available to us as augmentation

I have long taken issue with the “intelligence” part of the term “AI”. It pre-loads our thinking with ego since humans have a hard time conceiving of any type of intelligence that isn’t human intelligence.

What interesting things might we miss because the system isn’t imitating a human?

Don’t replace. Accelerate.

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