Manolis Kellis

So one thing that makes us unique is that every one of us has a different hardware.

The second thing that makes it unique is that every one of us has a different software uploading of all of human society, all of human civilization, all of human knowledge.

We're not born knowing it.

We're not like, I don't know, birds that learn how to make a nest through genetics and will make a nest even if they've never seen one.

We are constantly relearning all of human civilization.

So that's the second thing.

And the third one that actually makes humans very different from AI is that the baggage we carry is not experiential baggage, it's also evolutionary baggage.

So we have evolved through rounds of complexity.

So just like ogres have layers and Shrek has layers, humans have layers.

There's the cognitive layer, which is sort of the outer, you know, most, the latest evolutionary innovation, this enormous neocortex that we have evolved.

And then there's the emotional baggage underneath that.

And then there's all of the fear and fright and flight and all of these kinds of behaviors.

So...

AI only has a neocortex.

AI doesn't have a limbic system.

It doesn't have this complexity of human emotions, which make us so, I think, beautifully complex, so beautifully intertwined with our emotions, with our instincts, with our sort of gut reactions and all of that.

So I think when humans are trying to suppress that aspect,

the sort of quote unquote more human aspect towards a more cerebral aspect i think we lose a lot of the creativity we lose a lot of the you know freshness of humans and i think that's quite irreplaceable so we can look at the entirety of people that are alive today maybe all humans who have ever lived and mapped them in this high dimensional space and there's probably a center of

I would like to think that the center is actually empty.

That basically humans are just so diverse from each other that there's no such thing as an average human.