Last week we covered the topic of artificial intelligence in class, we talked about the “father” of AI, Alan Turing, and the Turing test he developed which evaluated if a machine was intelligent. I found this interesting because it got me thinking about what intelligence means. We talked about past machines such as Eliza and Sophia and although they were very advanced for their time, I don’t know if they were “intelligent” or just a very well-programmed machine. While in class I brought up a piece of news that I found fascinating, it was a new AI-powered research and study tool called Notebook LM that allows you to paste any information into a text box and it generates a very real podcast episode of the information given. Although this is also very advanced is this actually intelligence?
The class discussion made me ponder if AI is intelligent, this is a challenging thought because in some ways, yes, AI is intelligent but not in the same way humans are. Consciousness and emotions are a key part in my opinion that defines intelligence. It’s scary to think about what AI will advance to and what it will be able to do next, but I don’t think that it will a conscious or have emotions as humans do. Then again, in class we discussed the film Ex Machina, and this could be a possibility perhaps, in which AI learns to portray emotions and be self-aware. I think AI is an incredible thing we have created but I don’t know if we as humans really understand and if we will know when to stop.
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