MR. EDITOR:
Trump wants another renaming. This time it was AI's turn in his speech at the UN. AI should be called "super intelligence" (SI). However, there is something to know about the term "Super Intelligence." It is not new. It was introduced by Nick Bostrom with his book Superintelligence in 2014.
But there are other things to know. AI has a fairly well-known origin. Before it was called Artificial Intelligence, a name resulting from the Dartmouth Conference back in 1956, it was called "machine intelligence."
Many scientists and philosophers have contributed to AI. The most important are Babbage, Turing, Boole, Shannon, Minsky, McCarthy (considered the father of AI), Von Neumann, and a great woman who discovered the first computer, Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, thanks to the design of the analytical engine.
Is AI "fake"? AI is based on the imitation of "natural" human intelligence. This comes from Turing and his "imitation game" of 1950, in which a computer passes itself off as a woman and then, in the standard version, as a person. Can it stop being "fake"? Perhaps the concern should be a different one: that AI imitates the worst in ourselves. That is something Trump does not foresee: once again, he is wrong.
Rodrigo Alfonso González Fernández
Center for Cognitive Studies
Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile
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TO THE EDITOR:
Trump wants another renaming. This time it was AI's turn in his speech at the UN. AI should be called "super intelligence" (SI). However, there is something to know about the term "Super Intelligence." It is not new. It was introduced by Nick Bostrom with his book Superintelligence in 2014. But there are other things to know. AI has a fairly well-known origin. Before it was called Artificial Intelligence, a name resulting from the Dartmouth Conference back in 1956, it was called "machine intelligence." Many scientists and philosophers have contributed to AI. The most important are Babbage, Turing, Boole, Shannon, Minsky, McCarthy (considered the father of AI), Von Neumann, and a great woman who discovered the first computer, Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, thanks to the design of the analytical engine.
Is AI "fake"? AI is based on the imitation of "natural" human intelligence. This comes from Turing and his "imitation game" of 1950, in which a computer passes itself off as a woman and then, in the standard version, as a person. Can it stop being "fake"? Perhaps the concern should be a different one: that AI imitates the worst of ourselves. That is something Trump does not foresee: once again, he is wrong.
Rodrigo Alfonso González Fernández
Center for Cognitive Studies
Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile
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