Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence right now is kind of cool: it helps us code, draw, make voice-overs, and everything faster. Knowledge is cheap nowadays, and AI is an extension of mankind. Simply put, it’s just an optimisation algorithm using gradient descent to minimize errors, applied on a gigantic base of inputs, with enormous computing power. It just extrapolates from what it knows and spits out something similar. Funnily, it is something quite efficient, that which knows all the stuff yet so clueless about the thing behind the word, all the intricacies of life. Like man, as he is right now after all. One can’t train large language models on more data and hopes that it will begin to understand. So, who is more intelligent than whom? That might be a silly question. Rather, shouldn’t one ask what is intelligence first? In Chinese, intelligence means 慧, composed of 彗 (comet) and 心 (heart); it can be interpreted as light from the heart. And 智慧 (wisdom) literally means intelligence of the mind (active) or the intelligent mind (passive); it has the word 慧 in it. Shouldn’t the heart and the mind be one?

So, if one sees intelligence as something from the heart, not just as an ability to use experience and knowledge efficiently, then Artificial Intelligence is still artificial, just a mere cultivated intelligence, with no passion, no love. It is a powerful tool though. And, in that same line of thought, as long as man doesn’t radically change, society will not change, and AI will always be biased.