The piece blends theoretical exploration of intelligence with a practical pitch to fund a research lab dedicated to advancing understanding and optimization of human intelligence in an AI-driven era.

Within a broader AI market context, the article points to Nvidia’s record valuation as a sign of AI-enabled growth and notes Amazon’s recent labor-market actions as evidence of how AI-driven efficiency is reshaping employment.

It argues that AI, though digital at heart, can direct and optimize physical-world processes through autonomous systems and operator agents, raising questions about how digital instructions translate into action in the real world.

The piece surveys what intelligence means across animals, humans, and artificial systems, and how each can operate and improve outcomes in their respective domains.

Finally, it presents a venture-capital funded startup concept: a Human Intelligence Research Lab focused on deeply studying the mechanisms of human intelligence, with initial products including demonstrations of learning processes and strategies to enhance intelligence.