On Slashdot today:
Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans?
Posted by timothy
destinyland writes “A technology CEO sees game artificial intelligence as the key to a revolution in education, predicting a synergy where games create smarter humans who then create smarter games. Citing lessons drawn from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, Alex Peake, founder of Primer Labs, sees the possibility of a self-fueling feedback loop which creates ‘a Moore’s law for artificial intelligence,’ with accelerating returns ultimately generating the best possible education outcomes. ‘What the computer taught me was that there was real muggle magic …’ writes Peake, adding ‘Once we begin relying on AI mentors for our children and we get those mentors increasing in sophistication at an exponential rate, we’re dipping our toe into symbiosis between humans and the AI that shape them.'”