Can AI Create Art?<\/p>\n
Can AI have perceptions? Beliefs? Can rational thought penetrate the world the way we know it? Is there something essential in human cognition that is inaccessible to AI?<\/p>\n
There is a rather well-know tweet from the Open AI CEO: I am a\u00a0stochastic\u00a0parrot, and so r u. Stochastic means \u201crandomly determined,\u201d a probabilistic squawk. To call an AI a\u00a0stochastic\u00a0parrot is not derogatory. It is simply factual. It is how they work. Matrices and probabilities. So the question is:Are our words and our thoughts randomly determined? Did Gabriel Garcia Marquez randomly put one word in front of another and create a few masterpieces? Are Van Gough\u2019s brushstrokes expressions of something deep that has meaning or merely the random process of a brilliant mind?<\/p>\n
Penrose, in his Shadows of the Mind calls AI intelligence (intending \u201chuman-like\u201d intelligence)\u00a0counterfeit understanding.\u00a0\u201cTo have original thoughts requires consciousness\u00a0which\u00a0occurs\u00a0only\u00a0in human brains.\u00a0It cannot\u00a0manifest itself in other physical\u00a0systems.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If we agree that we have semi-original thoughts when creating or inventing, can AI create art?<\/p>\n AI thinks with the mathematics\u00a0we\u00a0have\u00a0invented. Unless it can arrive\u00a0at truths beyond mere logic\u00a0it cannot possess the basic qualities of \u2018understanding.\u201d G\u00f6del proved that all\u00a0truths are\u00a0manufactured, made\u00a0up\u00a0by the human mind. There is no mathematical system that is purely logical\u00a0or complete.\u00a0G\u00f6del\u2019s brilliance was to use logic against itself to prove its limitations. By doing that\u00a0G\u00f6del\u00a0showed how\u00a0limitless\u00a0the\u00a0human\u00a0mind\u00a0was. And, perhaps,\u00a0on the flip side\u00a0the\u00a0limits of computational models. He proved that human insight can never be reduced\u00a0to a mere set of rules.<\/p>\n The input-output process of large-language models, despite recent \u201camazing\u201d methods, is language. Just words. When we hear neural network we assume something that works like our minds, an artificial limbic system with an imperfect and emotional memory like our hippocampus, fear and loathing stored in its amygdala. That is not true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n LLMs have tremendous processing power and speed but they are nothing like our brains.<\/p>\n They\u2019re like airplanes, many many<\/i> times faster than a bird, but can a plane, paraphrasing Feynman, land in a gutter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A stochastic Parrot & G\u00f6del’s Theory of Incompleteness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post-writing","tag-ai-godel-penrose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}