# AI Could Multiply Human Cognitive Productivity by Giulio Boccaletti > "We have been wildly successful at accelerating our ability to think and process information, more so than any other human activity. The promise of artificial intelligence is to deliver another leap in increasing the productivity of specific cognitive functions: ones where the sophistication of the task is also orders of magnitude higher than previously possible." > **— Giulio Boccaletti**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Enhancing The Cognitive Capacity Of Our 7 Billion Thinking Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26065) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Giulio Boccaletti; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Cognitive Enhancement|Cognitive Enhancement]] - [[wiki/AI for Science|AI for Science]] - [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] - [[wiki/Automation|Automation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "We have been wildly successful at accelerating our ability to think and process information, more so than any other human activity. The promise of artificial intelligence is to deliver another leap in increasing the productivity of specific cognitive functions: ones where the sophistication of the task is also orders of magnitude higher than previously possible." — Giulio Boccaletti, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-giulio-boccaletti-ai-multiply-human-cognitive-productivity ```