Machines do not feel. They do not have emotions. They do not digest food.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1, King James version)
I quote the bible’s text on the creation of the earth. A creative act, described by humans.
It’s a mystical text and beautiful in its rhythm and simplicity. I heard it often when still growing up and visiting Roman catholic church regularly.
I was raised not only on Christianity, but on enlightenment too, and the idea that humans should be social for a very obvious reason: They are social beings.
That’s one thing differentiating humans from machines:
Humans are social.
They also have emotions, feelings – often passionate ones.
Machines do not feel.
The most striking difference between humans and machines is the fact that the thoughts and ideas a human can have are without limit, literally.
Machines, called ‘artificial intelligence’ still are machines, calculating.
They use algorithms and routines of combined algorithms built on statistical probability. They use huge amounts of data and calculate fast, because of the hardware involved – and the power supply.
That speed makes them in some ways superior to humans in the matter of speed – but: Nothing else.
They cannot use unknown, new data, if no human does provide it. They cannot combine things other than the ways programmed into their algorithms.
What can provide an impression of an actual person talking is the fact that language is used to create ‘answers’ after a fashion. But that is all.
Language follows patterns, just as algorithms do.
Such as: “How are you?” – “Fine.”
Machines can combine the data and the patterns in likely manners, based on their algorithms’ routines, that is the programming. Not in actual new ways that humans can or could.
If ever anyone tries to sell you the idea that ‘artificial intelligence’ is more than a machine, remember: They are selling it…
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