Why we need to create A.I.s that think in ways that we can't even imagine

Because of a quirk in our evolutionary history, we are cruising as the only self-conscious species on our planet, leaving us with the incorrect idea that human intelligence is singular. Our own intelligence is a society of intelligences, and this suite occupies only a small corner of the many types of intelligences and consciousnesses that are possible in the universe. We like to call our human intelligence "general purpose," because compared with other kinds of minds we have met, it can solve more types of problems, but as we build more and more synthetic minds we'll come to realize that human thinking is not general at all. It is only one species of thinking. The kind of thinking done by the emerging AIs today is already somewhat unlike human thinking.