Cute Artificial Intelligence
A recent article (1) brings up so many interesting ideas in conception, pregnancy and babyhood. The paper correctly identifies the lagging research on the properties and working of the placenta, uterus and cervix. This is a complex regime of fluid dynamics and mathematics that never got going. As mentioned in the paper, lower focus on the healthcare of women and ethical considerations have kept the field back. And the Physics of contractions, eventual birth and the babies’ ability to extract milk all provide a level of complexity that have not been studied yet.
As mentioned in the paper the placenta itself is a life-giving alien and the machine is so finely tuned for the expected and predicted viscous properties of the system. And the diffusion of gases between the mother and the baby is complex enough to defy explanation till recently. It is a fine dance, only nature could conduct and as the technologists fear the “singularity,” they should know it had arrived couple of million years before.
As engineers clamor to advance AI, little time is spent on high intelligence that seem to arrive every 200 milliseconds, well packaged and ready to roll, world over. A self-learning agent packed with a variety of safety features in the firmware, such as the ability to cry, smile and generally survive, it is far advanced than anything humans have (and likely could ever) envision. The learning system is so efficient, it has been nearly impossible to understand the knowledge accumulation processes of the human brain. As soon as she secures an environment for learning, language starts with better understood mathematics that prunes a decision-tree with a cascade of cases.
Such is the beauty of the miracle that happens five times every second. ChatGPT, jumping robots and self-driving automobiles are awesome, but they are no match to what humans already have in abundance.