# Learning Machines May Develop Alien Intelligence by Andy Clark > "A common theme in recent writings about machine intelligence is that the best new learning machines will constitute rather alien forms of intelligence." > **— Andy Clark**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [You Are What You Eat: Home-Grown A.I.s and the Big Data Food Chain](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26042) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Andy Clark; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] - **Article:** [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] - **Article:** [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Information Architecture|Information Architecture]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Machine Learning|Machine Learning]] - [[wiki/AI Benchmarking|AI Benchmarking]] - [[wiki/General-Purpose AI|General-Purpose AI]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "A common theme in recent writings about machine intelligence is that the best new learning machines will constitute rather alien forms of intelligence." — Andy Clark, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-andy-clark-learning-machines-develop-alien-intelligence ```