Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Generative AI: Thinking about Thinking - Robert Clougherty, Higher Ed Digest

Aristotle argued that the ability to communicate intelligent thought makes us human, and ChatGPT does that.  One of the other things that make us human is individuality and collaborative tasks.  When one sees other species in a group, they follow and mimic behavior rather than dividing tasks and taking individual roles.  Non-intelligent cyber systems do the same—each user providing the same input receives the same output.  Generative AI shifts the ground and does behave in an individual way. The biggest fear and argument is that AI could take over and eradicate humans.  Perhaps the real fear is not about AI but a fear about ourselves that we cast on the machine.

https://www.highereducationdigest.com/generative-ai-thinking-about-thinking/