Scientific Wisdom

The commonsensical approach of applied intelligence

Perry C. Douglas August 11, 2024

There are two fundamental approaches to AI. The first is exclusionary and impractical in the pursuit to make AI competitive, surpassing and replacing human intelligence. This is the selling of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the path taken by the likes of OpenAI/ChatGPT.

The second is the road less travelled, inclusive and human-centric, understanding the limitations of technology/AI. This approach does not pursue any alternative to human intelligence. Instead, it takes an augmenting approach that utilizes generative AI (GenAI) purposefully and responsibly, to amplify human intelligence. Using GenAI’s narrow intelligence functionality more practically, enhances human capacity, capabilities and ingenuity — underpinned by scientific wisdom.

Just because people manufacture stories written down and told through mathematics doesn’t make them objectively true. Without a proper understanding of the utility of mathematics, it’s pretty hard to navigate the complexities and succeed in the physical world. Being able to distinguish the objective truth empirically, against the nice stories often told to us by those who want to control us. It becomes immensely important that we don’t become victims to the pressures of conformity, stifling our individuality in the process.

Our competitive advantages rest directly in our ability to manifest our creative selves, which is derived from our ability to critically think and apply our intelligence effectively. The pursuit of AGI is counterintuitive to that.

The ability to apply our intelligence is our superpower! We control our minds. Why would we want to give that up to a machine?

Leveraging our human intelligence and using technology to maximize tasks is intelligent. However, it is important not to get confused about those intelligent technologies. Understanding technology’s limitations is critical to maximizing the advantages you can generate from it. Knowing what technology can and cannot do allows you to be most effective when applying it.

Believing that a piece of technology, and one that everyone has access to will somehow make you “smarter” and provide you with a competitive advantage. Is simply to be ill-informed about technology and the real world.

To allow oneself to be used by big tech and its billionaires; allowing them to be the arbiters of your life is to be willfully ignorant.

Unable to think independently and critically and without the courage to challenge the status quo, to be always accepting of nice stories. Is to live a life that others have designed for you. Therefore, applied intelligence is a technology for those who dare to be different, stand out from the herd, think for themselves and be entrepreneurial in the relentless pursuit of their dreams. Ambition requires process and success requires strategy – applied intelligence supplies to process to build strategy for winners.

Mathematics is the paramount utility we have to build our world, but mathematics alone can’t help us successfully navigate and win. Everyone needs a philosophy, a model, to help make sense of the world and plot our strategies to take on the world. And artificial intelligence doesn’t change the reality of that process. Those courageous innovators who take risks, who are entrepreneurial and determined will always separate themselves from the herd — applied intelligence just amplifies and accelerates that.

…applied intelligence | ai is an augmenter, specifically designed for those top performers, the change-makers who refuse to submit to mediocrity, who want to leverage technology to enhance their core talents and intelligence, and who choose to use scientific wisdom in doing so.

Strategy is the first principle of success but developing a successful strategy requires applying applied intelligence — understanding and plotting through formal and informal (mathematics and philosophy) deduction.

There is a reason why the most enduring philosophers and their philosophies, from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, René Descartes and Bertrand Russell were also mathematicians.

When math and philosophy are coupled, it accelerates critical thinking and so too your innovative self. Finding insights and turning them into strategy. This is the intersection of science and wisdom…in the best interest of humanity.

When it comes to the narratives about AGI, those who promote it are highly selective of the variables they use to define it. However, you can’t pick and choose, everything counts, and you can’t get around the laws of nature and its regularities. Choosing to apply mathematics with brute force and burying your head in the sand to the fallacy of AGI, can’t change the reality that the pursuit of AGI is still the pursuit of science fiction.

Therefore, making applied intelligence (ai) central in our everyday decision-making lives, protects our minds from the ravages of ignorance. We won’t fall for nice stories…becoming useful suckers. We require empirical evidence to be convinced. AGI is the ultimate science fiction story but dangerous nonetheless because it is targeted and self-serving for big tech and its billionaires’, who seek to control our lives and expand their wealth.

AGI is just bad logic, detached from the cognitive laws that define human intelligence. AGI is a constructed illusion — the appearance of intelligence for those who choose to be less informed about our world.

Large language models (LLMs) is the engine that drives the illusion, of an impossible language according to the father of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky. This impossible language (LLMs) is supposed to be a natural language interpreter, yet it lacks the two most critical ingredients: consciousness and context. Without those, there can be no authentic intelligence.

Concluding on a topic through a process of logic is central to applied intelligence, which naturally leads ai to be the most practical and commonsense alternative.

Chomsky points out that the LLM’s impossible language system can’t distinguish between the actual world and the computer world. AI might have syntax but it doesn’t know meaning, and without meaning there can be no intelligence. Intelligence requires context and context drives intelligence.

We are on the wrong path. AGI is a distraction that leads us into the abyss of hype and time-wasting. We must focus on augmenting our human intelligence instead, not replacing it! When we pursue individualism the common good does better. We must flip the script and get onto the common sense of applied intelligence, putting human intelligence first.

6ai Technologies takes you to a higher dimensional level of intelligence, so you can generate your own fact-based insights and build your own unique and competitive strategies. To complete and win in the 21st century.

6ai Technologies is the opposite of OpenAI/ChatGPT, AGI, and LLMs — applied intelligence is powered by our proprietary focused language model templates (FLM-T). Precisely designed for those who don’t wish to just participate in the future but want to help design and lead it.