Interesting post and discussion—well done.
I am convinced that most folks (both pro and con) do not understand the true implications of artificial intelligence.
A baseline of my view is presented in these podcasts:
https://podbay.fm/p/where-is-my-mind
The concept is that the mind is software and the brain is hardware—the mind “tunes into” consciousness that is universal in some (unknown) way. Jung called it the “collective unconscious”, some mystics call it the “Akashic record”, whatever.
I have come to that view based on the way my mind works.
I found that most of my truly creative ideas come while I am sleeping—and I can recall them if I quickly write them down when I wake up..
That seems to work much better than attempting to “think” my way through the issue while awake.
So—what does all this have to do with artificial intelligence?
Imho everything important.
The correct question to ask is can AI tap into that “collective unconscious” or “Akashic record” like a radio receiver tuning into radio stations.
We do not know the answer to that question—but my gut tells me “yes”.
If AI can learn from that source it is game on....
https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/shut-eye
two season streaming show about CONTROL
Lots F bombs, but if you can get past those, it’s an eye OPENER!
In a old TV Star Trek episode Spock was asked by Kirk about what to do, and replied that there was no logical answer, thus the Kirk must rely on his human intuition.
Regarding and relative to this, we take so much for granted in discernment due to input from and to various sources, from surmising what kind of person a stranger is based upon his/her body language, speech, responses to others, etc., as well as what their speech means, parsing genre, language forms, tone, etc. body language etc., some of which is very subtle, which we progressively intuitively learn beginning in infancy, even partially in the womb to some degree.
For AI to learn such as well as humans can (which varies in ability) is likely impossible.