Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)

Prof. David Krakauer argues that we are confusing knowledge with intelligence. He critiques the AI community's superficial definition of "emergence" in LLMs, contrasting it with the true meaning from complex systems: a fundamental change in internal organization that allows for a simpler, more powerful macroscopic description. He introduces "exbodiment"—outsourcing cognition to external tools—as a key part of collective intelligence, but warns that our evolutionary drive to conserve energy will lead us to outsource our thinking to AI, causing a "diminution and dilution" of human thought.