#2 What's your take on AI?
What's missing in this day and age of AI and endless content?
Your actual thoughts, your unique ideas, opinions, and perspective. So let's turn the tide. I invite you to sit down and quite simply, write.
The topic: What's your take on artificial intelligence?
Write at least 200 to 300 words.
You can send your words to me or post them in a comment below.
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AI has introduced the question: What is the difference between AI and being human? And reintroduced the question asked by many philosophers: What does it mean to be human?
AI can write, summarise, translate, and answer almost anything in seconds. If a machine can produce what I produce, you might ask, then what's left that is truly mine?
A French philosopher named René Descartes asked a surprisingly similar question nearly 400 years ago, long before computers existed.
Meditations on First Philosophy: “Meditation II” By: René Descartes
He used an example of a piece of wax to convey his perspective. Which is quite nice to read out loud.
In fine, all that contributes to make a body as distinctly known as possible, is found in the one before us. But, while I am speaking, let it be placed near the fire--what remained of the taste exhales, the smell evaporates, the color changes, its figure is destroyed, its size increases, it becomes liquid, it grows hot, it can hardly be handled, and, although struck upon, it emits no sound. Does the same wax still remain after this change?
It must be admitted that it does remain; no one doubts it, or judges otherwise. What, then, was it I knew with so much distinctness in the piece of wax? Assuredly, it could be nothing of all that I observed by means of the senses, since all the things that fell under taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing are changed, and yet the same wax remains."
So what's Descartes' point?
It isn't the senses that really tell us what the wax is. It's the mind. The smell, colour, shape... it all changed, but our understanding of "wax"remained.
The moment he judged the wax to be wax, he proved that he exists, because someone has to be doing the judging. Real understanding, then, comes from the mind, not the senses. And the thing we can be most certain of is our own thinking self.
In relation to the question that confronts us today more than ever, what does it mean to be human? What is the difference between AI and humans?
What's your take?
In slang, a take refers to an individual's personal opinion, viewpoint, or interpretation of a situation. Originating from the film and recording industry, it has evolved into common online idiom to describe how someone assesses an event, movie, or topic. "What's your take on Count Binface?"
A common phrase that circles the web these days is "Hot Take": A quickly produced, strongly worded, and deliberately provocative opinion meant to spark debate. Though, I'm not a fan because it represents what social media has become... a place for provocative and contraversial opinions to grab attention, as opposed to considered thought to further a conversation or understanding. That's my hot take.