{"id":11145,"date":"2023-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:55:36","slug":"the-creatives-will-be-fine-chatgpt-vs-the-human-brain-an-interview-with-prof-maciej-blaszak-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/the-creatives-will-be-fine-chatgpt-vs-the-human-brain-an-interview-with-prof-maciej-blaszak-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creatives Will Be Fine: ChatGPT vs. the Human Brain \u2013 an Interview with Prof. Maciej B\u0142aszak, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artificial intelligence is getting more and more capable as we speak. The most prominent example is ChatGPT, which has surpassed humans when it comes to obtaining and providing information. Does this mean our supremacy over machines is coming to an end?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This could be the end of some professions. First of all, the ones involving algorithmic tasks, in other words, well-defined professions governed by rigid procedures and pattern recognition. These may include “ordinary” jobs, but also those that we consider extremely prestigious today, such as programmer or mathematician. The area of skills covered by them is a piece of cake for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And do machines have an advantage over us? We\u2019ve known for almost 30 years that artificial intelligence is superior to humans in some areas, when Garry Kasparov lost the world chess championship to Deep Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was that an uneven battle?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That duel, however, was problematic not because a computer won against a man, but in that people play chess by completely different principles than a computer. Deep Blue was performing 200 million operations per second, while Kasparov did just a few. But grandmasters play using techniques such as image recognition, rather than analysis in the form of logic trees. Therefore, Kasparov was bound to fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation repeated itself in 2016, when Lee Sedol, a professional go player, lost 1:4 to the AlphaGo program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not concerned about that at all. What I’m interested in instead is what followed this match. AlphaGo was simply turned off. And Lee Sedol met with his wife, hugged his daughter, went to lunch. He performed a myriad of activities that we don’t even think of as displays of intelligence, whereas they were entirely out of reach for the computer program. One could say that AlphaGo works in a narrow and deep manner, while a person works in a wide and shallow manner. But this \u201cshallow\u201d is not a disadvantage, because our brain wasn\u2019t created to play chess or go. Basically, for him, the game is just a form of warmup, a means to achieve life goals. And artificial intelligence is first and foremost artificial \u2013 it does what it was programmed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midjourney \/ Maciej Kochanowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not everyone thinks so. It’s been almost 10 years since Prof. Stephen Hawking said that \u201cefforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our existence.\u201d More recently, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and many AI researchers, among others, have called for a halt to work on AI \u201cmore efficient than GPT-4.\u201d So perhaps one day HAL 9000, the rebellious computer from <\/strong>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/strong>, will no longer be just cinematic fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such statements show, above all, that our minds are predictive. We don\u2019t wait for something to happen, but try to foresee the chain of events. Meanwhile, in history, predictions, even those made by the most prominent figures, rarely come true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, artificial intelligence is dependent on us, whereas the danger is that this situation may turn around. And I’m not even thinking about whether it will become smarter than us or develop self-awareness. Because we don’t really even know what self-awareness is in humans. The grim scenario is that at some point, humans will not be able to cope without artificial intelligence. Therefore, I wouldn\u2019t prophesy that machines \u2013 straight out of sci-fi \u2013 will take over the world, but rather that they will make us feel increasingly retarded in motor, perceptual, emotional, or cognitive skills. And this is already happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give a simple example: paradoxically, autonomous vehicles can be rather counter to our psyche, a very dangerous phenomenon. This is because the brain likes very much to be in control of what\u2019s going on, and this feeling of control is a very strong motivating factor. For this reason, we prefer to be the driver of a car rather than a passenger. Another example is the growing problem with handwriting skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, of course, has to do with the fact that the piece of paper is being replaced on a daily basis by a computer keyboard. What this demonstrates is that if we surround ourselves with solutions that make our daily lives easier and do many tasks for us, then some purely biological functions we once had well developed will simply disappear. And there\u2019s no surprise in that, because our bodily functions are governed by a rule: get used or die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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