.........................is its current untrustworthiness and error rate. If a startup has some crazy glitch on an AI-generated web site, it probably is not that damaging but the stakes are much higher for established companies. The problem in my mind boils down to the AI's lack of skepticism.
Everyone has heard of Descartes "I think therefore I am," but his actual logic was a bit different. It can best be summarized as "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am." The core of thinking for Descartes was doubt, or as I call it, skepticism. By Descartes' definition, can AI be actually thinking without skepticism?
This isn't a problem limited to AI -- much of the human race seems to have lost the ability to be skeptical. It seems everyone is really good at a knee-jerk skepticism of anything originating across the political aisle, but the capacity for skepticism for one's own work or for inputs that reinforce one's core beliefs is limited.
-Warren Meyer, from this Coyote Blog post
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