Abstract
Making use of the techniques of media ecology we argue that the premise of the technological Singularity based on the notion computers will one day be smarter that their human creators is false. We also analyze the comments of other critics of the Singularity, as well supporters of this notion. The notion of intelligence that advocates of the technological singularity promote does not take into account the full dimension of human intelligence. They treat artificial intelligence as a figure without a ground. Human intelligence as we will show is not based solely on logical operations and computation, but also includes a long list of other characteristics that are unique to humans, which is the ground that supporters of the Singularity ignore. The list includes curiosity, imagination, intuition, emotions, passion, desires, pleasure, aesthetics, joy, purpose, objectives, goals, telos, values, morality, experience, wisdom, judgment, and even humor.
Highlights
The notion of the technological singularity or the idea that computers will one day be more intelligent than their human creators has received a lot of attention in recent years
The term was popularized by mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement, or brain-computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity
We firmly believe that machine intelligence can never exceed human intelligence, there is still a very real danger, that we can lose some of our autonomy to artificial intelligence (AI) or artificial general intelligence (AGI) through a decline in what we regard as human intelligence and how we view the nature of the human spirit
Summary
The notion of the technological singularity or the idea that computers will one day be more intelligent than their human creators has received a lot of attention in recent years. What to Think About Machines that Think [3] as well as the critical writings of Herbert Dreyfus [4,5,6,7] We will analyze their different positions and make use of their arguments, which we will integrate into our own critiques of both the idea that computers can think, and the idea of the Singularity, or the idea that machines through the use of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI, sometimes referred to as AI) can become more intelligent than their human creators. A human and the human’s intelligence are each a figure with a ground, the ground of experience, emotions, imagination, purpose, and all of the other human characteristics that computers cannot possibly duplicate because they have no sense of self. As pointed out by one of the reviewers of our essay, other forms of a technological singularity that do not try to duplicate human intelligence are altogether possible but they are not the subject of this essay
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