If the information is as accurate (or even better) as if it’s coming from you, I don’t care. I don’t read weather forecasts because of their entertainment value. (But this can be the icing on the cake if done well and make me prefer that.)
In short: Yes.
Being human isn’t enough. If you just pass on the information that you’ve collected, it will read exactly as bland as the “A.I.” version. Maybe even worse.
Okay, maybe you’re not a race driver. Or an astronaut. Or whatever. But have you ever felt anything?
That moment when you tripped over your own feet and suddenly time slowed down, you thought “Uh-oh!”, witnessing the ground slowly approaching your face, “maybe that handcuffs game was a stupid idea…”
Have you ever heard a car crash (maybe just on YouTube)? How does the sound of ripping metal feel? Never smelled gasoline before?
No machine ever has.
Sure, you could look up how other people experienced such things, how they wrote about them, but I bet it reads generic and flat. At best.
I don’t know. I hope I’m already dead when that happens.
Machines will never know what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. I was there. I do know. But when a machine is aware that it will never be able to do that, when a machine is aware of itself, it understands what it will never understand. What is the difference then to a person who has never been to the Sistine Chapel and only knows what it smells like from the stories of others?
How did this smell make you feel? Did it remind you of anything? Maybe a church or museum you visited as a child. Did you contemplate the concept of “immortality through art”? The meaning of faith?
If the program and the author both report: “The chapel smells like cotton candy, with a subtle note of dead-rat tree, that’s because of the unique combination of…” Yeah, I probably won’t be able to tell the difference. Nor would I care to try.
Which brings us back to the beginning. What makes us human beings unique is not what we present to the outside world, what we tell others. Machines can imitate this when we tell them how we felt at certain moments. Is all our writing worthless? What makes us unique is that we feel it, especially if we don’t tell anyone.
But if we don’t tell anyone, no one will know that we are unique. And if we tell others and document it on the internet, a machine learns to imitate our uniqueness. I’m about to go crazy and go to bed now. Good night @November_Sierra, you are smart
It only needs to be aware of the fact that there are things it doesn’t yet understand, and perhaps never will. As opposed to “thinking” that it knows everything and that all that it “knows” is forcibly true.
Which is something idiots have already been doing since forever.
In many ways, AI is just a refreshed version of uncle Knows-it-all.
