Should Artificial Intelligence make us reconceive what it means to be human?
ABCGenerative AIs are producing journalism, writing poems, and telling jokes. If human reasoning can so easily be counterfeited by machines, perhaps it’s best to find another ground for our collective self esteem. Because accounts of Descartes’s reasoning exist in many forms on the internet, ChatGPT offers concise summaries that I would grade at B+ in a short answer philosophy quiz: Overall, Descartes’ “Cogito, ergo sum” expresses his belief in the certainty of his own existence as a thinking, conscious being and forms the basis of his philosophy of epistemology and metaphysics. Philosophers have been content to leave these imaginative acts to writers of the new subgenre of science fiction – what’s sometimes called “cli fi”, such as Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Suppose the ease with which machines counterfeit reasoning leads us to view imagination as humanity’s true superpower.
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