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Sophisticated artificial intelligences will routinely tell you, when asked, that human intelligence is superior because it is located in a body. Well, they would say that. Still, it’s a nice thought to have, if it is, indeed, a thought. What type of advantage is it to have a body? To be at the mercy of hungers and hormones? To need sleep? To become irrational or emotional? To be finite, of course. To age and to die. But as AI reaches the outer limits of its own possible knowledge, it comes up against both corporeal knowledge and the evidence of human spirit that lives in art. AI needs bodies to produce more human content, otherwise it will begin to be trained on itself and spiral into its own model collapse. It also needs that difficult to quantify thing: the geist, the ghost found in the corners of our culture such as art and faith.
At present, an AI can only know a sculpture through the images, data, and language produced by humans. Humans, on the other...More
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Sophisticated artificial intelligences will routinely tell you, when asked, that human intelligence is superior because it is located in a body. Well, they would say that. Still, it’s a nice thought to have, if it is, indeed, a thought. What type of advantage is it to have a body? To be at the mercy of hungers and hormones? To need sleep? To become irrational or emotional? To be finite, of course. To age and to die. But as AI reaches the outer limits of its own possible knowledge, it comes up against both corporeal knowledge and the evidence of human spirit that lives in art. AI needs bodies to produce more human content, otherwise it will begin to be trained on itself and spiral into its own model collapse. It also needs that difficult to quantify thing: the geist, the ghost found in the corners of our culture such as art and faith.
At present, an AI can only know a sculpture through the images, data, and language produced by humans. Humans, on the other...More
