Concurrents: Not Real. Not Intelligence. Not At All Unimportant.
Few of us have a day when we don’t read something about artificial intelligence (AI), hear and/or see a news bite about its pervasiveness, or engage in a conversation about what AI might mean for our work, our profession, or our futures. Unfortunately, very little about all that news and noise has the informed precision we really need to understand and respond to AI. First, some basics. It’s called “artificial intelligence.” Its very name says it is not real, not genuine. Artificial sugar is decidedly not sugar. Artificial turf is not grass. An artificial limb is not a real body part. Each of these is a substitute for the “real thing” right? So, we should base our understanding of artificial intelligence on the foundation that it’s not real intelligence, but a substitute. Real human intelligence has human consciousness and emotions, among other things, as component elements. AI does not, at …
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