We like to believe that intelligence means understanding. That the smarter we get, the more we’ll know.
But what if intelligence is really just pattern recognition? What if the most powerful minds, whether artificial, human, or something beyond, aren’t defined by their ability to explain things, but by their ability to function despite uncertainty?
We created AI to think for us, but now we’re realizing it doesn’t think like us. It recognizes patterns too deep for human intuition, makes decisions we can’t fully explain, and solves problems in ways we never would. And that makes us uncomfortable, not just because it’s unpredictable, but because it forces us to confront the fact that we are also black boxes.
00:00 - Introduction
01:43 - The Hidden Intelligence We Can’t Explain
07:27 - Why This Is a Problem
17:00 - Black Boxes in Physics
22:51 - Consciousness: The Ultimate Black Box
26:36 - Can We Solve the Black Box Problem?