Artificial Intelligence and Plato’s Cave
- Authors: Rakin V.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Geology Komi Science Center Ural Branch of the RAS
- Issue: Vol 6, No 2 (2024)
- Pages: 46-52
- Section: Discussion. Artificial intelligence: potentials and consequences of its application
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-827X/article/view/268021
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/smtp.2024.6.2.4
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/HAWPIU
- ID: 268021
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Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) implemented on the basis of neural networks is compared to human intelligence because it is capable of replacing humans in performing a number of tasks. However, there are important differences that do not allow putting it on the same level as people. The dependence of the modern version of AI on humans lies not only in its origin, technology for its creation and its material embodiment, but also in the tasks it performs and data available to it for analysis. It operates with a system of concepts, abstractions and connections between them that is created by a human being. AI is in the same Plato’s cave as man himself and is limited by a person’s worldview. It does not realize the boundaries of the unknowable. The second important difference between AI and people is its memory effect which makes it similar to Laplace’s demon that is incapable of independent development. And the third difference is due to the technical design of modern AI employed on a computer device that does not have the flexibility of cognitive structures formed in the human brain.
About the authors
Vladimir I. Rakin
Institute of Geology Komi Science Center Ural Branch of the RAS
Email: rakin@geo.komisc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8085-8733
SPIN-code: 4578-1759
Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, Chief Researcher Syktyvkar, Russia
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