I guess it depends on the definition of each of these.
Empathy: No matter how advanced AI gets (true AGI or whatever) there will always be room for human <-> human empathy. AI will never truly have the same experiences as humans. It can pretend or fake like it does—and I think this could still be useful in many situations, like customer support or low-level therapy. It just wont be totally replaced by it.
Collaboration: Probably the weakest of the 3. Of course any AI can collaborate, and currently they already do. I still believe that for the near future human <-> human collaboration will be needed—i.e. we will want a “human in the loop” for some time.
Creativity: Still very much needed for the foreseeable future. LLMs, image generators, etc. very much do express creativity by combining ideas in latent space to things that are truly novel. But human brains still think (“explore possibility space”) differently, and are therefore valuable. It’s the same reason I believe having diverse intelligences (human, AI, other species, alien) is valuable. Also helps to push the boundaries of possibility space in a way that these models may have difficulty.
I’m curious your (or others) take on these though.
Agreed. And we already have fake empathy on tap in novels, tv shows, and movies. It does have it’s pleasures, but it didn’t replace us, and neither will fake empathy from bots.
I guess it depends on the definition of each of these.
Empathy: No matter how advanced AI gets (true AGI or whatever) there will always be room for human <-> human empathy. AI will never truly have the same experiences as humans. It can pretend or fake like it does—and I think this could still be useful in many situations, like customer support or low-level therapy. It just wont be totally replaced by it.
Collaboration: Probably the weakest of the 3. Of course any AI can collaborate, and currently they already do. I still believe that for the near future human <-> human collaboration will be needed—i.e. we will want a “human in the loop” for some time.
Creativity: Still very much needed for the foreseeable future. LLMs, image generators, etc. very much do express creativity by combining ideas in latent space to things that are truly novel. But human brains still think (“explore possibility space”) differently, and are therefore valuable. It’s the same reason I believe having diverse intelligences (human, AI, other species, alien) is valuable. Also helps to push the boundaries of possibility space in a way that these models may have difficulty.
I’m curious your (or others) take on these though.
Agreed. And we already have fake empathy on tap in novels, tv shows, and movies. It does have it’s pleasures, but it didn’t replace us, and neither will fake empathy from bots.