That’s an interesting way of thinking about it. I’m reminded of how computers have revolutionized thought over the past century.
Most humans have tended to think primarily by intuition. Glorified pattern-matching, with all the cognitive biases that entails.
Computers, in contrast, have tended to be all formalization, no intuition. They directly manipulate abstract symbols at the lowest level, symbols that humans only deal with at the highest levels of conscious thought.
And now AI is bringining things back around to (surprisingly brittle) intuition. It will be interesting, at least, to see how newer AI systems will bring together formalized symbolic reasoning with pattern-matching intuition.
That’s an interesting way of thinking about it. I’m reminded of how computers have revolutionized thought over the past century.
Most humans have tended to think primarily by intuition. Glorified pattern-matching, with all the cognitive biases that entails.
Computers, in contrast, have tended to be all formalization, no intuition. They directly manipulate abstract symbols at the lowest level, symbols that humans only deal with at the highest levels of conscious thought.
And now AI is bringining things back around to (surprisingly brittle) intuition. It will be interesting, at least, to see how newer AI systems will bring together formalized symbolic reasoning with pattern-matching intuition.