We come at this from very different directions but I like very much the paragraph about human ability to model the unseen as both a strength and weakness. It truly is an amazing ability from a cognitive perspective, from my perspective it is both the fount of the arts and of harmful religious behavior. A blessing and a curse in one, as the word cleave can mean to stick together or to separate apart.
When you think deeply like this as a human can you imagine given your experience working in AI that an AI could also write this post someday? Will AI self criticize its own cognitive issues? Or anticipate potential cognitive issues?
My separate question to you while I have you here is that of desire. Humans often originate thoughts because their flesh has a desire…this physical body desire for comfort, love, companionship, hunger, etc will inspire thoughts leading to actions. If AI has no body, what will itch it to scratch? Why would it develop agriculture to feed what? Why would it study nature if it had no need to live beside nature? And without those initiating desires could it ever be as robust as human intelligence?
We come at this from very different directions but I like very much the paragraph about human ability to model the unseen as both a strength and weakness. It truly is an amazing ability from a cognitive perspective, from my perspective it is both the fount of the arts and of harmful religious behavior. A blessing and a curse in one, as the word cleave can mean to stick together or to separate apart.
When you think deeply like this as a human can you imagine given your experience working in AI that an AI could also write this post someday? Will AI self criticize its own cognitive issues? Or anticipate potential cognitive issues?
My separate question to you while I have you here is that of desire. Humans often originate thoughts because their flesh has a desire…this physical body desire for comfort, love, companionship, hunger, etc will inspire thoughts leading to actions. If AI has no body, what will itch it to scratch? Why would it develop agriculture to feed what? Why would it study nature if it had no need to live beside nature? And without those initiating desires could it ever be as robust as human intelligence?