The New Sapience Thesis
New Sapience began with a simple thesis: the quickest way to create a thinking machine is to give it something to think about. The symbolic crowd was on the right track when they focused, not on emulating the human brain like the connectionists, but on the end product of human cognition: knowledge. But there was a fatal flaw in their approach: the symbols themselves.
A New Epistemology
“Expecting to create an AGI without first understanding how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to fly if we build them tall enough.”
“What is needed is nothing less than a breakthrough in philosophy, a new epistemological theory…”
David Deutsch, quantum computation physicist at the University of Oxford
The Third Singularity
Futurist Ray Kurzweil popularized the idea of the AI Singularity; when AIs first equal then far surpass humans in intelligence. But the advent of sapiens illustrates that AI is driven by knowledge not computing power. A revolution in how humans acquire, share, and use knowledge will indeed produce a singularity. But not for the first time.