mind and machine
the eternal debate
mind and machine
In the course of writing Superbloom over the last few years, I found myself losing patience with the prevailing critique of social media and the internet, the one that portrays the technology as something imposed on us by an imperious external force (progress or capitalism or Big Tech or what-have-you) and that in turn depicts us as the hapless,... See more
Nicholas Carr • Botched Little Animals
Instead of asking whether machines will ever become conscious, we might ask whether humans can become conscious enough to outgrow the “artificial intelligence” both inside them and in the machines around them.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Under current proposals for the AI Act, chatbots must tell users that they are not humans.
archive.is • European Parliament Prepares Tough Measures Over Use of Artificial In…
Because technology is a repository of human desire, a full critique of any machine needs also to be a critique of human desire. We’re the machine’s makers before we’re its victims.
Nicholas Carr • Botched Little Animals
The year 1980 was a turning point for the philosophy of artificial intelligence, even while AI itself was still finding its feet. Philosopher John Searle introduced his now-famous Chinese Room thought experiment, arguing that machines could produce impressive results without a shred of genuine understanding.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
The human brain itself — that mysterious maker of metaphors — has through the ages been portrayed as (a) a hydraulic pumping system, (b) a clock, (c) a telephone switching network, (d) a digital computer, and, now, (e) a large language model. In constructing machines, we also construct ways of seeing the world, and ourselves.
Nicholas Carr • Botched Little Animals
If our minds can be recreated by a machine, then maybe our thinking is more robotic than we’d like to admit. And that’s a reality that shakes us right down to our human core.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Krishnamurti also questioned whether thought, in its inherently mechanical nature, could ever produce real intelligence. After all, if our thinking operates like a machine, can it truly be called intelligent?