Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences

“AI is not about reproducing human intelligence, it is about doing without it. [..] Today, AI decouples successful problem solving from intelligent behaviour, and it is thanks to this decoupling that it can relentlessly colonise the boundless space of tasks, whenever these can be successfully performed without any understanding, awareness, sensitivity, concerns, hunches, insights, meaning, experience, even wisdom—and all those other ingredients that contribute to qualifying human intelligence. In short, it is precisely when we stop trying to reproduce human intelligence that we can be successful in replacing it in an increasing number of jobs.”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-017-0259-1

By Luciano Floridi (May 2017)

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