There was a time when human capabilities formed a continuous landscape. Rising from the plain were such towering prominences such as language, art, reason, literature, musical composition, science, mathematics, and so on. Now, however, artificial intelligence is like a rising tide, inundating the terrain. Even now, with AI only in its infancy, the lower elevations of the continent are almost submerged; what we see all around us is already mostly sea and islands.
What peaks still rise above the flood? One, we might have thought, is philosophical debate, especially about the deepest questions of existence and metaphysics.
Perhaps not. Have a look at this:
We see here many of the old familiar arguments, on both sides of this ancient question. But, as noted, AI is still a baby in diapers. What will this simulated debate produce five, or ten, or twenty years from now? Will it still be the same old stalemate, or will it shock us with arguments or insights we’ve never imagined? Is there some reason for us to believe, in principle, that it cannot?
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