Ultra Instinct | Eric Jang
There is a blue ocean of opportunity for AI systems that observe and act at a higher frequency than what most chatbots are capable of today.
Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Though invisible to the human eye, these other bands are very real and very useful. Humans use all wavelengths in everyday imaging and communication technologies. Birds and insects can see infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and cat olfactory bulbs can even sense X-rays.
Like the visible part of the EM spectra, there are decisions that happen at such slow speeds that they are scarcely recognizable as “intelligent behavior”.
Balsa and Cecropia trees take the following developmental strategy: Grow shallow roots and a hollow trunk, dedicate all resources to shooting vertically up as fast as possible. Once it is the tallest tree, grow leaves laterally to create a canopy that shades surrounding plants, suppressing their growth.
For a plant, the line between body development and decision making are blurred together; the action space of a plant is to grow in a particular direction. This may not seem like what we typically associate with intelligence, but what is development if not a slow reaction to the environment? Plants behavior seems a lot more coherent when watched in a sped-up timelapse.
