What An I can do that AI can’t

Neil D. Lawrence

The North End Social Club, 60 Roff Avenue, Bedford, MK41 7TW

Henry Ford’s Faster Horse

Artificial General Vehicle

Artificial General Vehicle

The Atomic Human

E S A R I N T U L
O M D P C F B V
H G J Q Z Y X K W

Bauby and Shannon

bits/min
billions
2000
6
billion
calculations/s
~100
a billion
a billion
embodiment
20 minutes
5 billion years
15 trillion years

New Flow of Information

New Flow of Information

Evolved Relationship

Evolved Relationship

Stochastic Parrots

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

Blake’s Newton

Trust, Autonomy and Embodiment

  • Trust is not a slogan
  • Trust is an infrastructure
  • Autonomy depends on Trust
  • Trust depends on shared culture

The MONIAC

Human Analogue Machine

HAM

HAM

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Bandwidth vs Complexity

bits/min \(100 \times 10^{-9}\) \(2,000\) \(600 \times 10^9\)

Epilogue

Wicked Problems

Thanks!

References

Lawrence, N.D., 2024. The atomic human: Understanding ourselves in the age of AI. Allen Lane.
Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137