oblig. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;903&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;903&#x2F;</a><p>We already have amplified memory (see also: books, mnemonics). and google amplifies <i>retrieval</i>.<p>But what is &quot;intelligence&quot;, that we might amplify it? For me, limited short-term working memory is an obstacle (EWD&#x27;s &quot;limited size of skull&quot;). As complexity is added, earlier parts drop out.<p>There is the &quot;technology&quot; of hierarchical decomposition and the pyschological instinct of chunking, but every problem has irreducible complexity... if this is greater than my working memory, I cannot grasp it.<p>Artificially enhanced working memory may help here, but I suspect the limit is due not so much short-term memory itself, but it having associations throughout all long-term memory. That is, it&#x27;s less a cache limit than a bandwidth limit, interconnecting with the entire mind. We aren&#x27;t Von Neumann architectured.<p>PS: there&#x27;s an argument that we might not be able to grasp intelligence itself, if its and its components&#x27; irreducible complexity is greater than any person&#x27;s working memory - even if we formalize a correct model, we mightn&#x27;t grasp it ourselves. Thus, IA may be essential for AI. Or, AI is essential for AI.