An AI culture lacks a few things that make us human.
Kindness: It is programmed to answer questions in a probable way, never to do more than programmed to do.
Compassion: It does not know what it's like to be a human, and cannot share sympathetic feelings.
Joy: "That does not compute."
Meaning: The meaning of a work or experience is derived from our unique knowledge, experiences, mental processes and emotions.
AI has only an amalgam of as much data as possible (and more).
It's like cat food. Some genius decided, well, cats like tuna, liver and chicken, so let's mix them all up and feed it to the cat every meal.
Art: Art is expression (even my photos express a relationship I had with the subject when I timed it, framed it and snapped it, wherever I was at the time.) It's not algorithmic, except by mimicry of "what most people like"
Surprise? There's no surprise when you can gin up anything at any time.
Ask a photographer their reaction to: "Your photo is so beautiful, like a postcard"
There's a positive and a negative aspect of this. AI doesn't know self from algorithm.
It IS an algorithm. I delight (delight?) in destroying expectations and inverting logic - because common logic is 180 degrees wrong, by societal programming (of people) and yet, that's what feeds those power-hungry neurons.
Did anyone ever wonder about the efficiency of our (human) neurons? They do amazing work without gigawatts of power. If there's a compromise in this (like birds needing small and lightweight brains, else they can't take off) then that's part of the mystery.
Mystery? Well, some things are just unknown yet, and rather than spit out a guess (which the machine is commanded to do in minimal time, like the proverbial "slick lawyer" ) then we have to come up with a new theory or algorithm. In short, we are able to reprogram our logical processes, whereas a computer that reprograms itself is .... well, too late to even think about. Maybe tomorrow, or after a short trip to the sci-fi world.
Maybe more. It's time to close up shop.
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