The Importance of Intuition in Artificial Intelligence

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A lot of the gloom and doom that I'm hearing is a belief that there will be an artificial intelligence. And chat GPT doesn't have that, but it's a lot of people think we're on the way to it. It's not obvious to me that there's going to be a form of digital intelligence that mimics human intuition or other ways that we think. But more importantly, it will face all the limitations that human intelligence faces and then some.

In the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of social change ushered in by new technologies, from the railways to the telegraph and ultimately airplanes. If we transpose Adams's concerns onto the power of artificial intelligence--a power whose rate of acceleration would have exceeded his wildest dreams--you might feel a bit uneasy. Listen as philosopher Jacob Howland of UATX speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why too much leisure is at best a mixed blessing, and how technology can lead to intellectual atrophy. They also speak about the role of AI in education and its implications for that most human of traits: curiosity. Finally, they discuss Howland's biggest concern when it comes to outsourcing our tasks, and our thinking, to machines: that we'll ultimately end up surrendering our own liberty.