Is it really Artificial intelligence?
Mohamed Fayez Monir
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What is intelligence???
It looks like a simple question, but it is a very deep one, a question that makes the difference between excellence and?mediocrity. To understand the true definition of intelligence we need to bring another 2 words in the English dictionary, these 2 words are intellectuality and smartness. Then later we will go into the word artificial, what does it mean really???
Definition of intelligence is?the?ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations:?REASON,?also defined as?the skilled use of reason and?the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)?Intelligence Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster?
Smartness is a?type of intelligence which is the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience.?Smartness - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com?
and the definition of?intellectual?is?a person who places a?high?value on or pursues things of interest to the intellect or the more complex forms and fields of knowledge, as aesthetic or philosophical matters, especially on an abstract and general level.?Intellectual Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com?
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The?intellect?is?the sum of the knowledge?and experience gained through time while smartness is the ability to use such knowledge and experience to solve new problems.
Intelligence?is the highest form of using cognitive skills to understand?reasons and using them to challenge the knowledge in hand and create new world of new reasons. Think of Albert Einstein.?
the word artificial means?made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to?natural) as?artificial flowers or?imitation; simulated; sham:?artificial vanilla flavoring.?Artificial Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com?
?Having all these definitions in mind, lets understand what everyone on the planet now is claiming to be named "Artificial Intelligence". What is it exactly and how it works? And can we apply the previous definitions on this claim or not??
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"Understanding AI :??
Broadly speaking, artificially intelligent systems can perform tasks commonly associated with human cognitive functions — such as interpreting speech, playing games and identifying patterns. They typically learn how to do so by processing massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model in their own decision-making. In many cases, humans will supervise an AI’s learning process, reinforcing good decisions and discouraging bad ones. But some AI systems are designed to learn without supervision — for instance, by playing a video game over and over until they eventually figure out the rules and how to win."?What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? How Does AI Work? | Built In?
?All the branches of what we call AI are depending mainly on computations, so in core it is mathematics with different branches including vectors, calculus, statistics,...etc. The objective is to create models and update these models through trying it thousands and millions of times with different settings to better modify the model so it can absorb the deep rules of complex systems.
This is very smart and complex modeling as although we?perceive?all what is around us as natural however in fact it is following very complex rules of the universe evolved over millions of years.??So at the end it is also mathematics!
This means that AI and its sub-branches as machine learning and deep learning are just rules dynamically modeled in a mathematical formula and these systems either hardware or software do not have any kind of awareness, consciousness, reasoning or will.???
We can conclude that AI is not really intelligence, it is mathematical modeling that uses the intellect, knowledge and experience in form of digital data which is the building unit of computations used by machines and treat them in a way to conclude complex mathematical equations that when we solve a probable conclusion can be reached.?
This of course is a great achievement in terms of augmenting basic cognitive human skills but it is not by any means intelligence. Intelligence is the highest forms of awareness where human brain can question anything critically and the current setup is million years away from such wish.?
What shall we call it? lets think of all inventions during human history, did we call flying machine an artifical bird or we call it aeroplane. Did we call the artifical vehicle, an artificial horse or we call it car. we need to give it a name but to ensure that it is just a tool at the end that augments our human senses, skills and power.
What shall you name it? give me your thoughts.
Head of Third-Party Management EU 2 - Human Pharma at Boehringer Ingelheim
1 年Hi Fayez, great thinking ! I'm asking myself if we can compare ChatGPT with the first airplane. - My point here is to say : the airplane uses another technology to fly compared to the bird. Is ChatGPT using another technology to produce a result compared to the human brain? - Second point : Chat GPT is not adding a new feasibility to the human being, it's just trying to get to the same result (but faster) which is different from the missing ability to fly for the human being. For the name : perhaps you can ask ChatGPT ?
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1 年Excellent explanation with a great END to think about! Thank you for sharing, Dear Mohamed.