Abstract
Due to certain progress made in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related fields, there is a common agreement that we are facing a blurring of the human and the artificial. This presentation will argue that this agreement is rather one that pertains to anthropomorphic notations when dealing with computers and computer-based devices, as opposed to one that is justified by engineering results. In fact, the language used to describe mechanic functions hides what ontologically occurs, and how the autonomy of humans can be endangered. The clarification intended here uses the philosophical distinction between agents and patients and translates it into the systems theoretical distinction between self-organising systems and non-self-organising entities.
Highlights
Oswald Wiener, Austrian cyberneticist, avant-gardist writer, musician, linguist and others, blames the Silicon Valley for merely simulating [1]
As with any living system, humans and society are able to maintain their organisational relations by the active provision of free energy, whereas machines cannot maintain themselves;
The social system as a whole boosts its self-organisation. This alternative integrates the machine with the human such that the digitised social system stays in command, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) serves as a tool for humane purposes
Summary
Oswald Wiener, Austrian cyberneticist, avant-gardist writer, musician, linguist and others, blames the Silicon Valley for merely simulating [1]. They rush into talking of “learning” and “intelligence”, all current AI machines do not go beyond “flat formalisms”, he says. Those machines outclass humans in computation, but they are a “surrogate of intelligence” only. “The heterarchically ordered depth of human rationality cannot be realised in such a way.”.
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