AI should incorporate 'alien' forms of intelligence, like the chemical communication used by the 99% of species that can only speak through molecules, rather than centering artificial intelligence solely on human-derived output, paralleling a Copernican shift away from human-centered views of intelligence.

46:07one one other way I like to think about this work is like foundation models for text and for uh images they are approaching in some cases exceeding human intelligence certainly mine in certain regimes where I've been pushing it I'm like holy crap this is smarter than me now um [clears throat] uh it's human intelligence And that's because it's trained on human intellectual output. But 99% of species

46:32on this planet can only speak with chemistry, right? Thinking of bacteria and fungi and and plants and insects, like they just only can talk with molecules. And I I I think that it's really worth adding other kind of alien forms of intelligence to our AI models. And the way to do that is to train it on the intellectual output of those other intellects, which is that's chemistry.

46:56That's the sense that's in the air. They're produced by living things for reasons to talk to each other. And uh you know, Terry Tao, who is this famous mathematician, he has this one paragraph in a paper he just wrote where, you know, he's he's you know, reflecting on these new forms of AI and the kind of weird mathematics that they can do. And he says, you know, I think increasingly

47:16we need to have a capernac view of intelligence. Meaning for a long time, you know, in astronomy, we had the earth at the center, but then we had to dislodge it to actually face facts. Um, and earth's a great place to be, but it's not the center of the universe, right? Um, and similarly, we've placed human intelligence at the center of the debate about artificial intelligence. And like pretty cool to be human. It's

47:38it's awesome. I love it. Um, but like why should we be at the center? Like what other forms of intellect are there? And so when he when he when I read what he wrote, I've kind of instantly like it instantly resonated with me and I've very much taken on this view that like we should have a Capernac view of intelligence. There's so many forms of it and there's so much uh richness out

47:58there um of things that are intelligence, some of which we might not even recognize as such. Uh and I think if we're building [clears throat] AI uh for our species and for the planet going forward, like we should have those forms of intelligence built in. thinking about all the progress that we've been making in you know broadly physical AI you know robots autonomous vehicles all that um