re: "A.I. Can’t Write My Cat Story Because It Hasn’t Felt What I Feel" (The New York Times, March 26, 2023)
The human author perhaps forgets that he is, like all other biological creations, also a machine. The synapses in his brain that generate not only thoughts but also feelings are, so far as we know, albeit only vaguely understanding, work much the same as the switches in the processing unit of an AI.
At the moment, we biological machines still have the edge. But it took nature 3.5 billion years of fiddling to create us, and we really haven't improved much for at least the last 12,000 years.
AI in contrast, has only existed for decades, and is evolving at an ever increasing clip. It would seem rash to predict with any simulated or real (Are they different? How can we tell?) confidence what AI might not be capable of reproducing in the next five years, let alone 10 or more.
But even if it can't feel, what is to stop AI shortly writing a different unique story about a cat that is as good as a cat story generated by the strictly physical processes occurring in David Means' brain? What Chat GPT has already produced in abundance shows that feeling is arguably not a prerequisite for at least some level of artistic merit.
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