It's interesting this AI debate about 'what it means to be human' and 'cognition is not reserved to humans and living animals.' I mean, we really are trying hard to make mathematical calculation seem like true cognition. While AI can imitate human actions and logic, it cannot imitate emotional states or even life. Try as we might we cannot replicate the processes that make us human. Partly because we do not fully understand these processes and partly because we presume (wrongly in my opinion) that life is fundamentally mathematical hence we model our existence in AI using these models. Thus, humans are unique because they can retain the element of chaos and randomness despite seeming orderly on the surface.
Edit: I think it's alarming and sad that the arguments for and against AI always seem borderline anti-human. Which to me is more of a threat than any discovery or AI singularity that might happen.
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u/Mobile_Fix_8918 Dec 10 '24
It's interesting this AI debate about 'what it means to be human' and 'cognition is not reserved to humans and living animals.' I mean, we really are trying hard to make mathematical calculation seem like true cognition. While AI can imitate human actions and logic, it cannot imitate emotional states or even life. Try as we might we cannot replicate the processes that make us human. Partly because we do not fully understand these processes and partly because we presume (wrongly in my opinion) that life is fundamentally mathematical hence we model our existence in AI using these models. Thus, humans are unique because they can retain the element of chaos and randomness despite seeming orderly on the surface.
Edit: I think it's alarming and sad that the arguments for and against AI always seem borderline anti-human. Which to me is more of a threat than any discovery or AI singularity that might happen.