I am a strong believer that what makes us human has never been to rational, but often the opposite... we are irrational emotional but with a strong belief that we act on rational data only. Sure we might be led to believe that we are all basically engineers forgetting that real engineers are often driven by passion and belief with a small aditional rational and critical thinking. Ideas are created by our passions not by our rational thinking. My fear is that AI will replace God, being even worse than a God in our own image.
I often turn to fiction trying in vain to express my thinking, and my thoughts goes to the very short story "Answer" by Frederic Brown
Loved the article, Ida. And the ending "Yes, exactly!" is brilliant. It beautifully illustrates the very paradox you have been exploring throughout the article.
And one more thing... isn't it almost weird how natural it now feels to have a conversation with AI? To even reply after it has already answered the question? 😅
Yes. I normally withhold myself from replying with "thank you" because of the increase of energy consumption. On a side note, I do thank my car or bicycle also 😁
The circularity here is the part that makes my head itch: we need critical thinking to use AI well, but careless AI use can erode the exact critical thinking we need to govern it. That is a very clean little trap. I also appreciate the point about reflection needing space. AI collapses space. It answers before uncertainty has had time to do its job. And uncertainty does have a job. It makes us compare, remember, rephrase, doubt, and decide. If we automate that interval away, we may end up with answers everywhere and almost no one left who knows how to stand behind them.
I am a strong believer that what makes us human has never been to rational, but often the opposite... we are irrational emotional but with a strong belief that we act on rational data only. Sure we might be led to believe that we are all basically engineers forgetting that real engineers are often driven by passion and belief with a small aditional rational and critical thinking. Ideas are created by our passions not by our rational thinking. My fear is that AI will replace God, being even worse than a God in our own image.
I often turn to fiction trying in vain to express my thinking, and my thoughts goes to the very short story "Answer" by Frederic Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNur4ns_31I
Thank you for sharing this short story, it's impactful...
How I understand Hegel, is that AI as the rationalisation of the world is the realisation of God in the world.
Loved the article, Ida. And the ending "Yes, exactly!" is brilliant. It beautifully illustrates the very paradox you have been exploring throughout the article.
And one more thing... isn't it almost weird how natural it now feels to have a conversation with AI? To even reply after it has already answered the question? 😅
Yes. I normally withhold myself from replying with "thank you" because of the increase of energy consumption. On a side note, I do thank my car or bicycle also 😁
The circularity here is the part that makes my head itch: we need critical thinking to use AI well, but careless AI use can erode the exact critical thinking we need to govern it. That is a very clean little trap. I also appreciate the point about reflection needing space. AI collapses space. It answers before uncertainty has had time to do its job. And uncertainty does have a job. It makes us compare, remember, rephrase, doubt, and decide. If we automate that interval away, we may end up with answers everywhere and almost no one left who knows how to stand behind them.
Yes. We, as humans, will have no way to anchor ourselves…