AI System – Is It Your "Cognitive Exoskeleton" or Simply Your Super-Fast Intern?

1. The Generalized-Abstract Understanding

Well, it's clear that there is a generalized-abstract concept: you create text faster, translate faster, format faster, program faster, create reports and reviews faster...

2. The More Concrete Understanding

There is a more concrete concept, when you for your typical mental activity create all kinds of ensembles from sequences of prompts, agents, and so on.

3. My Understanding - True Cognitive Amplification

Well, but I don't like both these concepts. The thing is that I for myself truly discovered the possibilities and power of smart chats when I understood that with their help I can amplify my reason and intelligence. I can with their help invent something new-that which I couldn't have invented without their help. This is the real amplification of your reason and intelligence.

The first-this is to a very significant degree an exoskeleton of a secretary, translator, proofreader, referent. What does reason and intelligence have to do with it here? Not that reason-even intelligence, this is a concept about the ability to solve tasks of a type unknown to you. When I mastered such things, yes, I understood that I can be myself and plus three secretaries in effectiveness and five translators. But I didn't want to be such a multi-personality. I didn't like it. And the well-being, honestly speaking, was like that of a very loaded secretary at one and a half positions.

The second-here you simply order a certain sequence of work of yourself and some programs. Yes, this, of course, is an amplifier of organization, not of intelligence and not of reason. But so one can also call a paper notepad, a daily planner an "exoskeleton of a self-organizer"-simply this one is in computerized and web-service form.

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Question to Readers

And how do you think-where is it better to attach the term "cognitive exoskeleton"?

I in general like more "cognitive exo-wings," because it doesn't look like a skeleton at all and is not one, and also hints for some reason about a cemetery. Real iron exoskeletons remind by appearance of strengthening and solidity, and the word "skeleton" itself reminds only about a cemetery, and also doesn't improve posture at all. This is a slightly different theme-terminological-but I write about this here since the term "cognitive exoskeleton" is already widely occupied for the first two not quite cognitive positions.

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My previous article *"Human and AI. How to Modernize Your Consciousness in 10 Minutes"* examines and positions about a dozen other dimensions regarding your attitude toward artificial intelligence.