AI as a Useful Tool
My Skepticism About AI If you have been reading my posts about AI on Facebook over the last year, you know that I’m something of an AI skeptic. For a few reasons, I have very real doubts about the ability of AI, as it currently exists, to do really creative work on its own because creative work is impossible without the human drive to find certain things out or solve a particular problem that few have been concerned about in the past. And what we take to be a problem worth solving is often the result of our fairly idiosyncratic takes on the world that come from our unique experience. AI Might Lead to Artificial Life…Some Time From Now I do think AI could be developed into a life form that would have unique experiences that would lead to an idiosyncratic perspective that in turn generates desires to solve new… Continue reading