AI, neither this nor that

I’m currently reading a couple of blogs which talk about AI in two very different and contrasting ways.

Loud Thinking is pragmatic, down to earth and humorous. It cuts through much of the current hyperbole surrounding AI and is very much in the ‘settle down, don’t panic, AI is an amazing tool’ camp.

In stark contrast is The Ten Thousand Things. Ordinarily a blog about the nature of mind and the attendant philosophy and psychology, it has latterly become a psychoanalytic exploration of AI by the author Robert Saltzman PhD, an ex psychotherapist.

I enjoy and appreciate both perspectives as it seems to me that whatever AI may or may not be remains unknowable. It is neither one thing nor another and we pigeonhole it at our peril.