Artificial intelligence and human intelligence

Artificial intelligence and human intelligence: the double puzzle by Daniel Andler ... AI is witnessing the peak of its glory. Following a series of failures in its early beginnings, it made remarkable progress at the dawn of the twenty-first century despite still being elusive: ambiguity and confusion still surround some aspects of artificial intelligence. Despite the progress achieved, the gap between it and its declared goal – simulating human intelligence – hardly narrows. To understand the features of this puzzle, we must confront a second puzzle: human intelligence. The latter is not reduced to merely the ability to solve any problem, but it describes through judgment the way we confront situations and circumstances in which we find ourselves involved. Intelligence as a strict normative concept, like moral or aesthetic judgment, and for this reason it remains difficult to attain. The intelligent artificial system does not perceive situations and circumstances; it perceives only the problems presented to it by human actors. At this very level, AI can support us and strengthen us. Because, in fact, it is increasingly solving a growing set of urgent and vital problems. This should remain its sole goal, not the futile and unreasonable aim of mimicking human intelligence or even surpassing it. Humanity needs flexible, powerful, and versatile tools, not semi-human beings equipped in an inhumane way with forms of knowledge.