Affordable AI Chips with Intrinsic Common Sense and Morality

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Relating thought to pyramidal cells

A new form of AI chip that is 1,000 times more economical, not only embodying aspects of common sense and moral values but also enhancing these principles in its owners—empowering individuals to make more informed judgments.

CMI Lab at the University of Stirling is uncovering how neocortical pyramidal two-point cells operate during different mental states, including deep sleep, wakefulness, and imaginative thinking—bridging the gap between the brain and mind.

Early investigations suggest these cellular mechanisms could be embodied in machines, enabling not only intrinsic performance efficiency but also elements of common sense and morality.

This is crucial, as powerful AI lacking fundamental human values could cause more harm than good.

Revisit common sense and morality

For most of human history, people relied on their direct experience, using or misusing information based on clear rewards or consequences. They rarely depended on information reported by others. However, in the twenty-first century, humanity finds itself in a world where shared information plays a much larger role. This shift underscores the need to re-learn how to trust direct experience and its common-sense interpretation, which is usually valid, though not always.

The evolution of misinformation

We have inadvertently created an AI that fuels misinformation , gradually overshadowing common sense, imagination, and morality.

Recent developments in IT, including AI, the Internet, and social media, massively increase the amount (as well as inherent biases) of true and untrue information received by users. Current AI systems worsen this trend by maximizing reward and amplifying misinformation. If not corrected, this trend is likely to accelerate, thus threatening to overload individuals with biased and dubious information, increasing the risk of confusion, poor judgement, and irrational, harmful decisions and behavior.

An AI chip to support and elevate humanity

We argue that this threat of information overload may be counteracted or largely prevented by giving the general public access to new, more powerful AI tools that enable them to deal with and make sense of the increasing stream of information and misinformation, thus helping to prevent information overload, confusion, and the irrational choices and behavior that follow, and allowing the public to make rational judgements and decisions.

Prosocial human capacity

We also argue that the dominant prosocial capacity humans have evolved will lead most people to make largely rational, prosocial moral judgements and decisions that serve society at large, if they are enabled to obtain a clear understanding of the current situation through new, more powerful AI tools.

A new type of brain-inspired AI technology

We aim to develop a new type of brain-inspired AI technology that may provide the powerful AI tools that are needed. This technology is currently being developed based on so-called “two-point neurons” (TPNs) and may give rise to AI endowed with more “real understanding”.