Artificial Intelligence is the topic of the moment.
My archaic reliance on actual books does not make me a huge AI user. For me, the increased speed at which I find a new restaurant is nice but replacing me at work I doubt. Typically, advancements such as AI create more problems that old lawyers can be used as effective problem solvers. It is the old, “the more things change the more they stay the same” situation. But the computer geeks can’t build a database big enough to replicate human relationships. It can try but ultimately the depth of human interactions is vast and constantly changing.
That is the flaw. AI can’t replace the unspoken connection humans have with one another. Most of my friends and I can speak without speaking. Clues and words set off a silent subtext that would never reach a computer because the lack of input needed for AI to respond. AI can’t observe or perceive. It can take data and process it with lightning speed sure, but it can’t hold hands, communicate with a look or empathize.
Maybe that is the problem I have with the AI debate the entire conversation emphasizes the loss of humanness in our cutthroat modern age. When did empathy equate with weakness? When did vulgarity equate with cleverness? When did hypocrisy become acceptable? When did shutting people up equate with constructive debate? When did doing the right thing become so hard to do? When did taking advantage become the only humanness we see acted out? AI can do lots of things, but it can’t and won’t be human.
We beat the machines by relying on our humanness. We need to continue emphasizing the things that while difficult keep us unique. The things that we know separate us from machines. Here are some: courage, morality, sacrifice, empathy, sympathy, love, responsibility, mercy, meekness, honesty, reconciliation, humility, and caring. I have yet to see machines do those things.
Albert R. Hartley
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