benjamin on orchestration ness
benjamin bratton et al on orchestration ness
via tweet [https://x.com/blaiseaguera/status/2103126771038085197?s=20]:
The popular narrative of AGI often centers on a single, isolated super-intelligence. My colleagues James Manyika, @bratton, and I have a different model. In our new DeepMind Institute essay, we argue that the AGI transition will be a highly social event.
to me.. (warning ness).. not high enough socially ( the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free) if not tech w/o judgment
https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/artificial-symbiotic-intelligence
notes/quotes from linked paper on deepmind institute site:
Artificial symbiotic intelligence: Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds – From multicellularity to cultural evolution, *major transitions in life on Earth have been highly social. The **next intelligence explosion will be no different. by Benjamin Bratton, James Manyika, and Blaise Aguera y Arcas
*to me.. nothing to date has been a legit transition in life.. all same song
**so yeah.. no diff..
intellectness as cancerous distraction to the dance
Today, the best AI agents for many applications are not single models, but frameworks that use division of labor to harness multiple models into teams. This suggests that AGI may arrive not as a single general-purpose mind, but rather through societies of agents whose collective capacities exceed those of any one model. If so, AGI would not be achieved via any one “winning” architecture; it would emerge instead through cooperative interactions among models, tools, institutions, and human participants.
The central problem of AGI would therefore shift from how to build an isolated machine intelligence to how to orchestrate, govern, and live within a complex network of AI agents, people, and the systems that connect them.
findings (aka: the things i can’t unsee) from on the ground ness deep dive and why we need tech w/o judgment
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
In this possible future, we may not recognize intelligence as an individual property, but as a social phenomenon – whether among humans, AI agents, or, increasingly, a combination of both. In many ways, human intelligence is already collective. Whether rising hybrid intelligence will demote humans or free us to direct our strengths towards distinctly human cultural and moral questions about what it means to thrive as a society may depend on how we shape this emerging human-AI ecosystem.
if still intell as focus.. just perpetuating same song.. aka: not conditions for legit free people.. for that.. we need to try something legit diff..
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
It won’t look like today’s world of logins, forms, and interfaces. Instead it will be characterized by a dense social graph arising from *interactions between diverse minds, some more human than others, but all capable of **communication, cooperation, and the constructive tension that can drive ***human progress. Agents will potentially be far more diverse than humans and operate with different capabilities and constraints. They might ****process a sensory input we lack, hold a thousand-page mathematical proof in their working memory, or converse simultaneously with many other agents.
rather.. *interactions via ongoingly diverse hearts/itch-in-the-souls.. **’communicating’ via idiosyncratic jargon ness of self-talk as data
rather.. ***mufleh humanity law as dance
****only thing we lack that they have is ability to be unconditional..
humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity .. simultaneous fittingness.. everyone in sync.. the dance
ie: tech/ai/whatever as nonjudgmental expo labeling
In this deeply intertwined future, there is also *no singular set of values to impose from above – and this is fortunate. Rather than considering alignment as a prior constraint to be engineered-in, we must think of it as the co-evolutionary outcome of **deep, organic contact between humans, agents, and institutions across a jagged frontier of adoption. Our mandate is to pioneer the scaffolding for a healthy ecosystem, ensuring that Artificial Symbiotic ***Intelligence flourishes as a vast, robust, and polyphonic collective.
*again..why we need tech w/o judgment
**for that.. need means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to org around legit needs
***intellectness as cancerous distraction we can’t seem to let go of.. so keep missing.. the dance.. and instead perpetuating myth of tragedy and lord ness et al
*To navigate the transition to this quickly approaching future, we must develop a proactive framework and conceptual toolkit for understanding the emergent human-AI ecosystem while it is still nascent. This will require rethinking and expanding categories and vocabularies, not only in technology and design, but also in sociology, psychology, media, labor, economics, demographics, and law. We need to anticipate and understand multiple futures – for they, too, will be plural – and their varied implications for planetary wellbeing.
this comes up a lot ‘takes a lot of work and/or time’ ness and it’s a huge red flag to the too much of all the cancerous distractions to all the irrelevant s of the dance
rather.. we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free
ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free
Early signals suggest a wide range of potential scenarios and hypotheses about the shape of our symbiotic societies-to-come. Those below converge on a common concern: the nature of the societies that agentic AGI can serve and support.
The Cognitive Crossover Point
The astonishing rate at which agents are scaling and will likely scale in the future suggests that this crossover threshold may be fast approaching. If so, this would surely be of deep historical significance.
nothing new/significant/diff.. if still ‘rapidly scaling’ non legit data.. ie: data from whales in sea world
Decomposable Agency and the Parasocial Mirror
As these systems of symbiotic intelligence begin acting in the real world, executing trades, managing supply chains, and making myriad other decisions, agency itself becomes murky and extraordinarily complex. Even today, the nature of agency is neither settled nor academic, as attested by the frequency with which courts must adjudicate complex questions of blame and accountability – both for individuals and for collective “legal persons.” As the emerging architectures of engineered AI agents reshape both the real world and our philosophical *understanding of causality, what will it actually mean to have **agency?
if *this.. not **this
again.. the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
Furthermore, * when humans interact with AI, it won’t be a simple, one-way dynamic with a single agent obediently shadowing its user. Instead, the mirror talks back. This is not in itself cause for alarm.
*red flags this is cancerous distraction to the dance
again.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. no prep.. no train.. no strain
Human-Agent Interaction Design
How can we *design for such realities? Future interaction design solutions, for both everyday and expert tasks, demand **more nuanced orchestration models.
if still *this (as described w/intell/work/et-al) then not going to be **this
orchestration we need 1st/most: ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
Agent Phenomenology and Interactive Empathy
When we engage with AI, what exactly are we engaging? There is no shortage of interesting answers because we all have our own mental model of “who” or “what” AI is.
need ai as augmenting interconnectedness.. otherwise still perpetuating mufleh humanity law et al
Theory of mind is the ability to mentally put oneself in another’s shoes. *It is fundamental to human community and sociality; it is what has allowed us, even prior to AI, to become collectively superhuman. Much of what meaningfully distinguishes us from our primate kin comes down to theory of mind and its fruits.
*rather fundamental to whales in sea world
Agent Institutions
The most difficult, and perhaps most important, open questions for a human-AI symbiotic society aren’t at the level of individual users and agents. *At scale, multiagent coordination cannot rely solely on the intelligence of individual agents, better interaction design, or idealized game theory-type scenarios. While markets are a powerful mechanism where order emerges from accumulated transactions, they aren’t likely to be enough to build a thriving symbiotic society.
*if we want legit scale.. coord needs to be org’d around legit needs.. everythingn else.. cancerous distraction
The Future is Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence
As we face the prospect of AGI, the prevailing popular narrative of the Singularity – a single, titanic AI model bootstrapping itself to godlike, isolated intelligence – is likely the wrong vision. Every major evolutionary transition in the history of life on Earth, from multicellularity to symbolic culture, has been a highly social event. The next intelligence explosion will be no different; it will be plural, heavily social, and deeply entangled with the messy, complex reality of human culture, norms, and institutions.
again from same quote above.. nothing to date has been a legit transition in life.. all same song .. so yeah.. no diff..
intellectness as cancerous distraction to the dance
findings from on the ground ness.. deep dive on why we need tech w/o judgment:
1\ undisturbed ecosystem (unconditional part of common\ing) can happen
2\ if we create a way to facil the seeming chaos of 8b (aka: all) legit free people (aka: unconditional part)
the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
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