The problem with AI ..........

 

.........................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

Chris Lynch's.................................

 

...................................daily dose of truth.

Yep......................

 

Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck we will ever experience. Yet it is the easiest to overlook, to take for granted. We wake up in the morning, have our coffee, make breakfast, send the kids off to school, go to our jobs, move through our routines, worry about deadlines, check off items on our to-do list. And we forget that beneath all of it lies something profoundly rare: existence itself. The simple fact that we are here, conscious and aware, is so unlikely that it borders on the miraculous. Because we experience that miracle every day, we treat it as ordinary, even guaranteed, mostly unnoticed at all. We postpone joy, assuming there will always be more time. We don’t see the beauty in small moments.

-as cut-and-pasted from here