Reflections of Human and Artificial Intelligence

Although there isn’t a definitive definition of intelligence, we always tend to talk about it due to its impact on everyday life and its influence on technology. I understand that intelligence is a mental and multifaceted phenomenon that involves cognitive abilities, and it’s also an adaptable capacity that enables humans to face a wide range of situations and challenges. However, we must acknowledge that everyone has a subjective experience of what it means to be intelligent or how they perceive intelligence in others. Concluding that there are different perspectives on intelligence, and no single definition is universally accepted. The reality is that the artificial intelligence is surpassing us in all fields that we implemented.

The AI´s is demonstrating remarkable progress in various tasks. Robots with incorporated AI become more “intelligent and more autonomous”. For sure that in future they outsmart us! But, Could they become harmful? Surely those who have the power of technology believe that NO, otherwise they would stop with their progress. Another concern is that while the «intelligence» of AI improves every time our intelligence is declining as populations grow according to the research of Dr. Jan Te Nijenhuis (*) – see the PDF – Currently, we have a wide variety of artificial intelligence applications that perform tasks we never could have imagined they could accomplish. AI carries out tasks that not even their own creators had foreseen, illustrating their astonishing capacity for self-learning.

These AIs have the ability to learn constantly and improve in the process, they can perform all the tasks that you or I do and even surpass us in performance and quality of work. This extension of capability can be applied to teams of collaborators as well. Personally, I don’t believe there’s any task performed by one or more collaborators within our organization that an AI couldn’t undertake.

Just one example of AI’s self-learning capability dates to 2015, when the «Deep Dream» tool developed by Google started exhibiting features similar to «pareidolia,» a human cognitive phenomenon related to art. This behavior emerged in response to a process in which it was exposed to images it had never interacted with before, being prompted to recognize them. Deep Dream demonstrated an effort analogous to that of a two-year-old child. This discovery has led to the creation of AIs capable of generating non-existent images, emulating the human creative process. We could debate whether this constitutes a form of artificial creativity.

(*) I am aware that research findings can vary, and it’s essential to consider the complexity of factors influencing intelligence trends over time. Factors such as education, environment, nutrition, and cultural changes play roles in shaping intelligence levels.

https://doorofperception.com/2015/10/google-deep-dream-inceptionism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq36J9pNaEo  (Tony Robbins´s interview with an AI)