It's amazing or scary, depending on the person, that the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) seem limitless. Since ChatGPT was launched online to great fanfare at the end of 2022, AI is today considered a true technological revolution, like electricity or the arrival of the automobile. From the environment to the sciences, including education, finance, astronomy and military matters, they are now shaking all our fields of knowledge.
But the instrument will indeed have its limits, and important ones, if we are to believe Raphael Enthoven's new work, Artificial mindIts title is an ambivalent reference to the book Artificial womb By Henri Atlan. Because yes, for the famous French philosopher and writer, artificial intelligence, no matter how advanced and complex it is in terms of its technological capabilities, will never be able to think. Even if the committed writer acknowledges the magnitude of the revolution represented by the emergence of artificial intelligence on a large scale in our daily lives, he firmly believes that it is unable to compete with humans, especially in a certain field, which is the field of philosophy.
According to him, a machine cannot become a mind under any circumstances. “She finds herself like a chicken in front of a knife when we ask her to imagine a problem,” because turning a question into a problem to make it the focus of thinking is completely foreign to her. It is believed that human intelligence is something that no machine can produce. Not only does it have the ability to sort, classify and interpret data or phenomena, but it produces doubts, fears, doubts and memories of the many experiences that make up existence, as many of the hermetic elements of artificial intelligence are mentioned in his book. a job.
Enthoven also does not believe in the so-called conflict between humans and artificial intelligence. He also finds the idea ridiculous. He asserts that machines are more powerful than humans, which is both obvious and ridiculous at the same time. A hammer is stronger than a fist, and a calculator is much faster than the synapses in our neurons. so what ? These tools were created with the aim of improving skills.
Essentially, the work, which can be read in one sitting – drawing on popular culture and outdated modes of thinking – denounces this outdated science fiction-stimulated fantasy of humanity replaced by machines. “The question is not when a machine will produce thought, but where our ancient fear of it comes from, which passes from Golem to ChatGPT via Frankenstein or Terminator…” he wrote.
