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Artificial intelligence is a major breakthrough brought about by human intelligence. We should use it widely – and wisely. Steen Søgaard analyses the data
ig data is the new gold standard in laundry management and efficiency. And you need artificially intelligent machinery to achieve the best results.
Momentum
Homo sapiens, the hunter-gatherer, appeared approximately 100,000 years ago. It took the hunters 90,000 years to develop arable farming; it took arable farmers 10,000 years to develop industrialisation; the industrial societies took 200 years to develop nuclear power and the nuclear society; and fifty years to develop digitisation. It has taken the digitised societies 13 years to develop convolutional neural networks or deep learning – artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sense that we understand it today. This dizzying acceleration has been driven by human intelligence, a limitation
that AI now frees us from. The next burst of acceleration will not diminish the differences between new and old technologies. On the contrary.
Differences
People are different and the differences have only become greater and clearer. It’s our blessing and burden. The differences give us an evolutionary advantage, because if just a few of the inventive ones can find solutions to vital problems, such as hunting mammoths or growing grain, others can learn from the imaginative ones. But the differences are also a burden, because if everyone has unlimited access to the use of the products of the creatives, for example, oil, plastic and atomic bombs, without understanding their consequences, it risks harming humanity and the planet. Technological development, like the art of medicine,
should come with a caution: Primum non nocere. Do good and do no harm.
Intelligence
Intelligence can be defined as a system’s ability to integrate data, recognise patterns and use the result purposefully. Throw in ‘artificial’ and you have a definition of AI. It not only makes animals like the New Caledonian crow, orcas and elephants intelligent, but also computer programs like IBM’s Deep Blue. It requires intelligence, fr example, to recognise textile qualities and sort them into categories, but that does not make intelligent programs conscious. Consciousness requires more. Intelligence can create an overview of known information and put the information together in calculable ways, as for example AlphaGo did when it defeated Lee Sedol, the Korean world champion in Go, or as AlphaFold has done in its solution to the ‘protein-folding problem’.
From data to consciousness By activating a single, tiny electronic switch, a computer creates data corresponding to 1 bit. By activating multiple switches in patterns, information is generated. By activating several patterns of information, knowledge is created for the person who reads the information, but it is not knowledge for the computer, just as the image on the TV screen has no meaning for the TV. It requires consciousness to be able to put information into context, for example that red frogs taste terrible, you get sick from eating them, you can die the next day, and it could have been me, so it is best to keep a respectful distance. Facial recognition triggers an experience in people, but none in the phone it opens.
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Consciousness is a dynamic quantity that continuously develops its references, has emotions, intentions, willpower and the ability to stop itself. ChatGPT is not conscious, but pay sweet talking lip service, without own opinions. Gemini
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