When we talk about something that have “artificial” in it, we tend to associate that with something that “does not exist naturally”. But recently i read article titled Bag of words, have mercy on us , and this footnote caught my attention:
Even the word “artificial” is wrong, because it menacingly implies replacement. Artificial sweeteners, flowers, legs—these are things we only use when we can’t have the real deal. So what part of intelligence, exactly, are we so intent on replacing?
Well, i guess we can interpret “artificial” like that. And that footnote make wonder, what are we trying to replace with artificial intelligence?
Some people might be saying “no one is gonna be replaced by artificial intelligence”, well, it depends. The problem with the current Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a AI) hype cycle is that some people too dependent on it, and what this implies is that, these people might be limiting themselves to the output of AI. So if the AI did not have the answer for them, they might not be able to find the answer themselves. In a way, we can think of this as a “replacement” process. Some people’s intelligence is slowly being replaced by artificial intelligence, and they might not even aware of it.
When i heard some people said that they can’t live without AI anymore, and i feel like there’s some problem here, but i don’t know what the problem is. And when i read those footnote, the previous statement that some people can’t live without AI anymore make me thinking, “are we in the replacement process already?”.
So here’s another point of view, AI is not replacing the human themselves but replacing the human’s intelligence. With that in mind, use AI wisely or you are at the risk of your intelligence unconsciously being replaced by artificial intelligence.