Buongiorno, Voglio condividere con voi questa citazione di Adorno che trovo tanto impegnativa (almeno per me) quanto efficace nell'illustrare l'impossibilità dell'esistenza dell'AI "Strong" [1] (detta anche AGI "Artificial General Intelligence") Parto, per evidenziarla, dalla conclusione: «Philosophical thinking begins as soon as it ceases to content itself with cognitions that are predictable and from which nothing more emerges than what had been placed there beforehand.» http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/adorno_formalism.html --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Adorno on Philosophy, Formalism, & Artificial Intelligence [...] It is certainly better—as in prephilosophical knowledge so in philosophy—not to proceed without a measure of autonomy of thought in relation to its subject matter. The logical apparatus owes its immeasurable improvement beyond primitive consciousness to this autonomy. It contains, intensified, at the level of content, the force of enlightenment that marks the historical development of philosophy. Yet as it became autonomous and developed into an apparatus, thinking also became the prey of reification and congealed into a high-handed method. Cybernetic machines are a crude example of this. They graphically demonstrate to people the nullity of formalized thinking abstracted from its contents insofar as such machines perform better than thinking subjects much of what used to be the proud achievement of the method of subjective reason. Should thinking subjects passively transform themselves into the instruments of such formalization, then they virtually cease being subjects. They approach the machine in the guise of its imperfect replica. Philosophical thinking begins as soon as it ceases to content itself with cognitions that are predictable and from which nothing more emerges than what had been placed there beforehand. The humane significance of computers would be to unburden the thinking of living beings to the extent that thought would gain the freedom to attain a knowledge that is not already implicit. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Tratto da: Theodor W. Adorno, “Notes on Philosophical Thinking,” in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated by Henry W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), extract, pp. 127-128. Saluti, Giovanni [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/#StroVersWeakAI “Strong” AI seeks to create artificial persons: machines that have all the mental powers we have, including phenomenal consciousness. “Weak” AI, on the other hand, seeks to build information-processing machines that appear to have the full mental repertoire of human persons (Searle 1997). -- Giovanni Biscuolo