Why AI isn’t nearly as smart as it looks*
It is not clear that AI has produced more intelligence than humans have put into it. There is a problematic side to artificial intelligence, which I shall refer to under the general heading of “stupidity.” Here I intend the term “stupidity” to be understood in an analytical, not a pejorative sense. In humans, at least, stupidity and intelligence – even great brilliance – do not exclude each other. They often coexist, as experience teaches us.
Stupidity in embracing the notion that human cognition is fundamentally algorithmic in nature; or is ultimately based on processes of an algorithmic type.
The indian expression "Koopastha manDuka" and
The Chinese expression 井底之蛙 (jǐngdǐzhīwā) – the frog at the bottom of the well – fits perfectly!
S 1. Continued adherence to existing procedures, habits, modes of thinking and behavior, combined with an inability to recognize clear signs that these are inappropriate or even disastrous in the given concrete case. Rigid adherence to past experience and rote learning in the face of situations that call for fresh thinking. One could speak of blindly “algorithmic” behavior in the broadest sense.
S 2. Inability to “think out of the box,” to look at the bigger picture, to mentally jump out of the process in which one is engaged and pose overreaching questions such as, “What am I really doing?” and “Does it make sense?” and “What is really going on here?”
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