A lot of food for thought in this post. I agree with a lot of your points, especially those about how educators describe and talk about AI with students. I think definitions of AI and its "intelligence" are maybe a bit more a grey area, or an area that might be shifting under our feet. I think there is more to this, but I like this overview from an IBM course on AI Fundamentals I'm taking:
What's the difference between AI and augmented intelligence?
AI and augmented intelligence share the same objective, but have different approaches.
Augmented intelligence has a modest goal of helping humans with tasks that are not practical to do. For example, reading 1000 pages in an hour.
In contrast, artificial intelligence has a lofty goal of mimicking human thinking and processes.
Artificial intelligence is the ability for machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence such as reasoning, natural communication, and problem solving.
**AI**
> It replaces the need for a human
**Augmented intelligence**
> Machines and humans working together, to enhance each other's efforts when completing tasks
There's more but it's in graphic and table form that doesn't work here,
Interesting term and definition of "augmented intelligence". I do wonder if the goal should be really the mimicking. Why not just simply perform tasks without it being copying what humans can do? Do you have a link to a nice article on this?
I can't think of one that talks a lot about mimicking. Making people more efficient in their work, the augmenting idea, seems to have a fair bit of backing. This is not exactly there, but the exchange about radiologists is very interesting:
One other thing I saw recently that feels like it is inline with your post's theme is this piece in The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/the-guardian-view-on-the-ai-conundrum-what-it-means-to-be-human-is-elusive
Thanks for this. It is rather amazing that the age of AI is making us think about what makes us human, isn't it?
Yes it is
And just read another post right - spot on - on this topic from Nina Schick:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ninaschick_a-provocative-study-from-google-where-llms-activity-7152924361174183937-I5JR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
A lot of food for thought in this post. I agree with a lot of your points, especially those about how educators describe and talk about AI with students. I think definitions of AI and its "intelligence" are maybe a bit more a grey area, or an area that might be shifting under our feet. I think there is more to this, but I like this overview from an IBM course on AI Fundamentals I'm taking:
What's the difference between AI and augmented intelligence?
AI and augmented intelligence share the same objective, but have different approaches.
Augmented intelligence has a modest goal of helping humans with tasks that are not practical to do. For example, reading 1000 pages in an hour.
In contrast, artificial intelligence has a lofty goal of mimicking human thinking and processes.
Artificial intelligence is the ability for machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence such as reasoning, natural communication, and problem solving.
**AI**
> It replaces the need for a human
**Augmented intelligence**
> Machines and humans working together, to enhance each other's efforts when completing tasks
There's more but it's in graphic and table form that doesn't work here,
Interesting term and definition of "augmented intelligence". I do wonder if the goal should be really the mimicking. Why not just simply perform tasks without it being copying what humans can do? Do you have a link to a nice article on this?
I can't think of one that talks a lot about mimicking. Making people more efficient in their work, the augmenting idea, seems to have a fair bit of backing. This is not exactly there, but the exchange about radiologists is very interesting:
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/andrew-ng-ai-implementation
A shorter thing I saw on Botzilla is this:
YOU + AI > YOU (or a competitor) not using AI