The other day, I was discussing mind-mapping with an acquaintance, it's an interesting subject, you know those flowing diagrams of how one thinks. My acquaintance stated that his interests had little to do with his career or job, still I like to challenge such things. Why you ask? Because, all thoughts, ideas, and interests in one's life often intersect somewhere, I know mine do. How about yours? Well, let's talk about this shall we, if only for a moment or two.
You see, my personal interest in complexity, chaos, cascading challenges, Murphy's Law, hierarchy structures, individual-freedom and the whole, net-centric systems, etc, all allegorically seem to relate to my business efforts in franchising. Before retirement I was a franchisor, and founded my own franchising company. Systems thinking and franchising are practically synonymous.
Indeed, I suppose that most AI programmers and IT professionals are also interested in systems thinking, the human brain, cognition, and such. Consider the advantage of a software programmer, computer engineer, or IT professional in such things. Also consider the mind of a creative artist and their interests in the human mind, how it works, where creativity comes from, and even how to make a thinking computer. Now consider if all that was in one person, or if two of these types of individuals got together for a fire-side chat on the topic of AI.
In doing this, I immediately considered the need for fast-tracking, shortcuts, by-passing for AI after considering the cross-pollination of these two types of brains and way of thinking. If we want to make a large IT system capable of creative endeavors and thinking, perhaps we'd need a system that actually uses fewer path changes, dual, triple, quad processing rather than on-off logic gates as the information is flowing, therefore perhaps less energy, and a simpler process, so maybe AI creativity is actually much easier and everyone using logic and systematic thinking to figure it out is over thinking - maybe it's something really, really, simple.
For instance what Douglas Hofstadter stated in his video about Analogous Thought and AI Programming and the logic reasoning that will analogous formulas where; A is to B as C is to D. And then, we just allow the system to randomly chose A to B, and pick a C, then ask the question, thus analogous thinking - aka primitive creativity.
A side thought:
You see, it doesn't matter if we are archiving Google's collection of trillions of internet webpages or all the HIPPA hospital data, after adding in the DNA of every individual in 5-10 years. If the way in which we retrieve the information, and if the creative never-ending questions can be asked by the system itself then, the super computer processing speed can do the rest and we get Singularity tomorrow, so no need for the Institute there at Stanford to host anymore seminar talks from futurists, it will have arrived - and they'll all need to find something else to do, or become applied science prototype builders rather than philosophical wanderers.
Okay so, first step we collect the data, then devise creative pathways to bypass logic gates and programming - next we let the system go without confines to ask questions and answer them based on the data queries, isn't that kind of how a human mind thinks creatively, well, its close, question is; is it close enough to work the way I describe?
And is it possible that one's experiences, observations, and profession leads to insights into the way we think and how we can program computers and software to approximate the same. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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