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The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence

  • Sybille Krämer
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement
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Abstract

The paper aims to correct the problematic narrative that the human mind has its ‘natural’ place in the mental inner life of individuals. Two assumptions are the starting point: (1) Our ‘human intelligence’ is not ‘natural’, but is acquired and exercised through social interaction and the use of signs (language, writing, images etc.). (2) Our fundamental relationship with technology is less substitution than assistance. What does it mean to start from the concept of a collective intelligence, which is a collaborative interrelationship of humans, symbols and technology? The argument proceeds in five steps: 1) Operativity is an indispensable and productive dimension of the human mind. 2) ‘Digitality’ can be understood independently of computers. 3) As ‘forensic devices’ computers make manifest as patterns what often remains hidden in our cognitive and aesthetic activities. 4) Machine learning, in which algorithms inductively ‘abstract’ regularities from large data sets, is not automated self-learning. 5) We do not have to fear the progress of artificial intelligence, but the stagnation of human intelligence. The fear of an almighty super-intelligence (‘strong AI’) distracts us from the contemporary ‘weak AI’ and its currently possible abuse of data.

Abstract

The paper aims to correct the problematic narrative that the human mind has its ‘natural’ place in the mental inner life of individuals. Two assumptions are the starting point: (1) Our ‘human intelligence’ is not ‘natural’, but is acquired and exercised through social interaction and the use of signs (language, writing, images etc.). (2) Our fundamental relationship with technology is less substitution than assistance. What does it mean to start from the concept of a collective intelligence, which is a collaborative interrelationship of humans, symbols and technology? The argument proceeds in five steps: 1) Operativity is an indispensable and productive dimension of the human mind. 2) ‘Digitality’ can be understood independently of computers. 3) As ‘forensic devices’ computers make manifest as patterns what often remains hidden in our cognitive and aesthetic activities. 4) Machine learning, in which algorithms inductively ‘abstract’ regularities from large data sets, is not automated self-learning. 5) We do not have to fear the progress of artificial intelligence, but the stagnation of human intelligence. The fear of an almighty super-intelligence (‘strong AI’) distracts us from the contemporary ‘weak AI’ and its currently possible abuse of data.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Acknowledgements VII
  4. Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
  5. Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
  6. The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
  7. Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
  8. Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
  9. Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
  10. Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
  11. Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
  12. AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
  13. Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
  14. Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
  15. The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
  16. Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
  17. Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
  18. Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
  19. “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
  20. AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
  21. Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
  22. List of contributors 309
  23. Index of Authors 315
  24. Index of Subjects 319
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770216-003

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Acknowledgements VII
  4. Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
  5. Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
  6. The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
  7. Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
  8. Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
  9. Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
  10. Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
  11. Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
  12. AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
  13. Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
  14. Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
  15. The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
  16. Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
  17. Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
  18. Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
  19. “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
  20. AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
  21. Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
  22. List of contributors 309
  23. Index of Authors 315
  24. Index of Subjects 319
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