One and the same? Has artificial intelligence caught up to human thought? That was the question posed in today's article. There was much to it, but for me it wasn't the history of AI (while interesting) or the question of good or evil to AI or even whether AI can truly think (like a human). It was the use of science to explain our thinking and how it fit with AI's thinking.
Understanding. We understand through seeing, and hence we have intelligence.
Memory. With intelligence, comes memory, which then helps to build our intelligence, by connecting the right memories to new situations ( a concept I used in teaching content reading.)
Experimentation. Children gain knowledge through testing their environment.
And finally, curiosity. After everything, the article ends with curiosity and where we as humans go with it. Comparing today to the 30s and the development of the bomb, like the article did, we can anticipate the dangers, but we can't ignore our desire to know. The bomb was detonated and fear came with it, the fear of where it would take us. The same is true here: where will AI take us? I wonder: Could this be a moment for the proverb, "Curiosity killed the cat," or will we, as we have from the 40s (so far), have "Satisfaction brought it back"?
Humans can't seem to retreat, so I'm betting it's onward, and hopefully, upward.
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