In the first half, author of "A Brief History of Intelligence," Max Bennett, discussed the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow. The first brains started appearing over 600 million years ago, with the early ones small and simple, and later evolving with more complexity. He listed the five breakthroughs in the brain as steering, reinforcing, simulating, mentalizing, and speaking, with each modification enabling new faculties and building on the last. Steering is an ab… Lees meer