The Human Skills AI Can’t Replace
In this article for the Quilette magazine, William Littlefield suggests that the speed and infallibility of computing provides no advantage for unprecedented problems that call for new hypotheses. Today’s inductive AI can only solve problems in a predefined problem space. Where a computer might be stuck in an endless loop, iterating over infinite explanations, humans use their value systems to infer which explanations are valid and likely. The prognosis for the future, the author finds, is not apocalyptic. Instead, there will be growth in sectors that rely upon abductive reasoning, such as research, design, and the creative arts. Delimiting the applications of AI, grounding the conversation in the historical and mechanical context of the technology, is more likely to reveal the future than irrational exuberance, or collective anxiety. For the foreseeable future, he argues, man will innovate and machine will toil.
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