How Breaking the Rules of Math Will Give Us an Edge Over AI

It is our human nature to tinker with rules, as anyone who has argued over dubious interpretations of the game Monopoly will attest. Rule-breaking may hold the key to giving us an edge over machines that, for all their emerging capabilities, are tied to fixed directives. A close look at how mathematics comes to be demonstrates the power of departing from accepted convention, mathematician and author Junaid Mubeen writes in Mathematical Intelligence: A Story of Human Superiority Over Machines.How Humans have long been dreaming up concepts and creatures that exist outside our physical reality. The oldest known figurative art object, discovered in a cave in the Lone Valley of south-western Germany, is the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, a chimeric figurine that is half-human, half-lion. Sculpted around 40,000 years ago for purposes unknown, the Lion Man is a product of pure human imagination.