Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron [Elektronisk resurs] The importance of an organic body when facing unknown situations as they unfold in the present moment

• Departing from popular imaginations around artificial intelligence (AI), this article engages in the I in the AI acronym but from perspectives outside of mathematics, computer science and machine learning. When intelligence is attended to here, it most often refers to narrow calculating tasks. This connotation to calculation provides AI an image of scientificity and objectivity, particularly attractive in societies with a pervasive desire for numbers. However, as is increasingly apparent today, when employed in more general areas of our messy socio-cultural realities, AI- powered automated systems often fail or have unintended consequences. This article will contribute to this critique of AI by attending to Nicholas of Cusa and his treatment of intelligence. According to him, intelligence is equally dependent on an ability to handle the unknown as it unfolds in the present moment. This suggests that intelligence is organic which ties Cusa to more contemporary discussions in tech philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences in which it is argued that intelligence is dependent on having—and acting through—an organic body. Understanding intelligence as organic thus suggests an oxymoronic relationship to artificial. 

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Social Sciences  (hsv)

Media and Communications  (hsv)

Human Aspects of ICT  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap  (hsv)

Mänsklig interaktion med IKT  (hsv)

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government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Artificial Intelligence

Human-Computer Interaction

Philosophy

Body

Cusa

Nonconsciousness

Organic

Presence