AI and the Myth of Originality | Dr Nana Ariel #38

Well, if we've learned something in recent years, that every attempt to provide any kind of forecast is limited, right? Because today we say that some industries are threatened and tomorrow others...

I do think that thinkers, philosophers, leaders, scholars, maybe it's not very surprising because I'm one, but I think that this field is about to really loom facing the difficulties we're talking about.

So I really don't know about...

the the more technological fields computer science etc um but i do feel and sense and see that people are are really holding into the humanities right now as a way to think about this very uh destructive moment

i agree i think If we think about what artificial intelligence is, right? It's an intelligence system as aiming to help us get more things done.

But in doing that, we're asking it to process the solution itself without us thinking about it.

And I think what makes us human is obviously the artistic side of things, creating language, understanding language, the social bonds and AI doesn't have a multi-sensory experience and it doesn't have like with AI, for example.

Data in a database is the data.

It doesn't change.

But in our lives, we can change our memories.

We can change how we perceive certain things.

And I think that's what makes us special, right? That we can reflect on things and change our opinion about something at any point in time.

AI can, but It's given a structured set of data and information, whereas we can pick which data and information we hold for our memories and lifetime.

And what makes things special is if you think about any of the greatest thinkers and doers in history, they've always had some special skill.

That's a very human skill.

Michelangelo, for example, Da Vinci, he built things and came up with concepts no one ever thought about.

His airplane, sorry, his flying machine was amazing.

It was ahead of its time, right? Yeah.

And I think people are not really understanding the intersection of the two subjects.

How do you see that they intersect? And why is it very important that they intersect right now?

So you mean more like philosophy and technology or the intellectual aspect and the technological aspect? Well, I think that the obvious...

connection that people mostly talk about is ethics, right? How to build ethical machines and all kinds of ethical dilemmas.

I think that there are more fundamental questions to ask.

For example, philosophers have been thinking about language since antiquity.

And they have a lot to contribute to our thinking about conversations, you know, and conversational machines.