Chatting for a while with ChatGPT is a mind-blowing experience. This model of artificial intelligence (AI) has answers to every conceivable question, though not to the fundamental ones.
And I explain: the chatty robot knows absolutely everything about absolutely any topic you want to propose and is capable of maintaining an interesting, entertaining and polite conversation, with a pinch of salt, for as long as you want, but there comes a time when it begins to respond with evasions and to refer to a human conversationalist and that is when the questions have to do with the big questions that everyone has to ask: Who am I? Does it all make sense? Why should I care about my fellow man?
The debate on AI has only just begun and there are many challenges ahead. Its rapid development and its unsuspected limits have led some to call for a moratorium on its implementation to avoid the possible risks of a technology that we do not yet have control over.
The so-called fourth industrial revolution, which the company has IA will lead to the disappearance of thousands of jobs, as the tasks currently performed by many millions of human beings can be carried out much more quickly and efficiently by a computer.
The truth is that AI beats us in computing power, data analysis and memory; but its supposed intelligence becomes inept when it tries to be authentically human, when its responses are not measured in terms of accuracy or efficiency, but in terms of empathy, compassion or transcendence.
– Supernatural artificial intelligence is nothing more than the sublimation of the individualistic, materialistic and competitive model of our society. As when IBM's mythical Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garri Kasparov, current and future models of artificial intelligence seek only to win at all costs. In reality, if we think about it, they are just playing a game against us that, sooner or later, as they continue to learn, they will end up winning. Win, win and win, that is the meaning of their existence.
For algorithms, the closest thing to our concept of happiness is victory over the competitor, but is that the most human thing? And this reflection leads me to the question: are machines becoming more and more like humans, or are we humans behaving more and more like machines?
Our throwaway society leaves out of its equation everything that does not serve to achieve the victory of the Nietzschean superman "liberated" at last from the yoke of God. It tries to advance at all costs, no matter who is left behind, for the other is after all nothing more than a mere competitor. His goal: to win at all costs and whatever it takes, even if it means clearing out the weak and breaking family and community ties.
I hope that the debate on the artificial intelligence lead us to learn something from the machines. They teach us that the future of humanity, if we follow their path, will be as cold and lonely as they are. And that, when one of us manages to defeat all his opponents, his only satisfaction will be to be able to say to himself (he will have no one to share it with): Game Over.
Journalist. Graduate in Communication Sciences and Bachelor in Religious Sciences. He works in the Diocesan Delegation of Media in Malaga. His numerous "threads" on Twitter about faith and daily life have a great popularity.
