The future of artificial intelligence

However, there is also talk of ‘superintelligence’, of the threat of losing control, and of a future in which machines will surpass humans.

Yet the gap between vision and reality is nothing new: AI is a field of great promise – and equally great misunderstandings. The systems process language, generate images, recognise patterns, make decisions – nothing more. And yet we persist in describing them in terms that are actually reserved for ourselves: AI ‘thinks’, it ‘understands’, it ‘acts’. We take a look at this area of tension: what would it mean if machines were truly intelligent? Is pattern recognition sufficient, or does intelligence require a body, experience and a connection to the world, as the Embodied AI approach suggests? And are neurosymbolic approaches the next step?

However, this discussion – which marks the start of the events within the ‘On/Off Relationship’ thematic focus – is not just about the systems themselves. Equally relevant is the language we use to talk about them: when we attribute profoundly human characteristics to machines, this also changes our own self-understanding. And last but not least, the question arises: Who actually benefits from certain visions of the future of AI – and who is putting them into circulation?

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