For a few months now, the media has been chasing this huge pig through the village, which for many people under the keywords "artificial intelligence" (AI) or even "general artificial intelligence" either gives rise to the most beautiful hopes - there is talk of medical diagnoses of a special quality or of the production of texts that would otherwise take too much time - or, conversely, raises the greatest concerns, ranging from the takeover of democracy by machines to the uncontrolled production of fake news.
The question of whether a computer can think with zeros and ones and develop into a mental subject is not discussed anywhere in a comprehensible way, although everyone knows the answer is no! This would require an analysis of mental activity, but the masses of experts palavering in the media prefer to talk about machine programs and data storage. Incidentally, a friend of mine once said that we don't need postmodernism, we need a modern post. And if you continue this play on words, you can say: we don't need artificial intelligence, we need intelligent art, which is now being attributed to machines by attributing creativity to them. This means artifacts that are seen as "new, surprising and valuable". As with all new technologies, there is fear in some quarters that professions or people will become superfluous, but some people should be afraid of language generators like ChatGPT. Here's what I mean: In the past, people were afraid that machines would become better than them, or at least equal to them, and thus displace them. Today, when you read through many texts that sound the same, you learn that people have become like the machines, which now find it easy to take over their tasks. ChatGPT writes more elegant letters of application, reliably delivers reports on soccer matches - all you have to do is name the opponents and state the result - writes error-free medical reports and any novel review you ask the software to write. Many of the tasks in which humans used to see their purpose in life are now performed better by machines, which are now busy making scientific discoveries. People are given an unimaginable amount of freedom. But what do they do with it? Hopefully they won't turn to AI. It has never tasted a beer and doesn't know what it tastes like.
