The religious idea of intelligent design suggests that God created life to fulfill his goals and purposes.
The scientific theory of evolution says that life evolves through natural selection, with no goals or purposes.
The conceptual divide between purposeful design and spontaneous evolution splits not only our stories about life but also the history of AI. This article tries to dive under the divide:
There is a lot to think about here, especially the idea that unpredictability can actually be part of intelligence. Thank you for taking us through such a big subject Pavlovic..
I like the framing of AI as a beginning rather than an endpoint. The interesting question isn't whether machines have reached “intelligence,” but whether we're still using the wrong mental model for what intelligence could become when the system itself can participate in its own evolution.
A fascinating continuation that pushes the AI conversation beyond engineering toward evolution, unpredictability, and the nature of intelligence itself. I especially appreciate how it invites us to think about whether intelligence can truly be designed—or whether it must, in some sense, emerge.
