Four Reasons Why Being Matters More Than Thinking |
The closest technical cousin to aspiration is alignment: making AI pursue goals that serve human values.
A machine can classify distress, but it does not care.
Considering AI as equivalent to natural intelligence does dramatic injustice to the “real” thing.
For centuries, one sentence helped shape how many of us understood human identity: “I think, therefore I am,” René Descartes’s famous claim that thought proves existence. It still sounds elegant. It also feels far less complete in an age when software can draft, summarize, translate, classify, and predict in seconds.
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) is outstanding at the kind of (mental) work that we had for a long time placed at the center of our self-worth. Unless we finally wake up to the fact that humans are multidimensional, organically evolving kaleidoscopes, we are due for an existential crisis. Recognizing this matters for the way in which we position ourselves in this hybrid era.
Our Multidimensional Nature
A holistic perspective of natural intelligence includes four natural dimensions. First come aspirations: our sense of direction, purpose, and values. Second come emotions: the felt layer that connects us to other people and to........