Right at the start of his book on AI, Spanish philosopher Agustín Fernández Mallo provides proof that AI is definitely A but most certainly not I.
Fernández Mallo says that if AI truly imitated human intelligence, it would then develop thinking in all directions in which human intelligence has developed. Instead, it seems extremely circumscribed by the historically specific thinking of one single civilization. Why, for example, isn’t it thinking like Aztecs did, or Mayans, or ancient Greeks, or medieval Spaniards? Whether their thinking was correct or incorrect, it built cities and empires and was most certainly an example of intelligence.
Forget the Aztecs. The way AI speaks to us would have sounded extremely weird even just 20 years ago. Its voice is that of a post-woke HR administrator. One thing it most certainly isn’t is diverse.
Of course, this last paragraph doesn’t come from Fernández Mallo, but from me. But I find the book by this philosopher to be very promising because I’m only on page 3, and there is already a lot to think about.
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