Intelligent Machines
If the Silicon Valley CEOs are to be believed, AI is already smarter than humans in specific domains and will soon completely surpass total human intelligence. And yet, we’ve all seen examples of AI being remarkably stupid!
The real danger, however, is not that AI will exceed human intelligence, but that human beings will dumb themselves down by becoming over-reliant on AI.
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AI simulates understanding by finding correlations in vast sets of data, which it relies on humans to provide.
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AI excels at narrow tasks it was specifically trained to do — often surpassing human abilities.
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AI doesn’t have an agenda of its own, but it is neither neutral nor objective because it is trained on data created by humans.
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AI can process millions of data points simultaneously, without fatigue.
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AI can analyse facial expressions and tone of voice to detect human emotions and can simulate empathy, but it lacks genuine feelings.
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Humans use sensory information from lived experience to understand context, meaning and nuance.
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Humans use creativity to generalise knowledge to apply it to novel situations.
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Humans often have their own agenda and are influenced by emotions and subjective bias.
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Humans have very limited working memory capacity and become tired or forgetful.
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Mirror neurons give us empathy and insight into how others think and feel and help us learn through imitation.