My mind is swirling this morning. I'm mindful of a new day and a new month. I'm mindful of a new intelligence, too. Why has ai entered my thoughts this morning? Probably because I discovered a new book by Blaise Aguera y Arcas titled "What Is Intelligence." I hope to get a copy soon.
Having revisited previous posts in this blog I asked ChatGPT to interpret a few of my poems and then added the summary interpretation it provided beneath them. What I received were thoughtful (thought-full) interpretations, which left me wondering if they were really thoughts, or instead simply "reasoned summations?"
Is this new intelligence really so artificial? By definition to be artificial something must be produced by human beings rather than something that occurs naturally. Something artificial replicates a "real" thing, like an artificial Gucci bag. Artificial Intelligence, as a process, was made by human beings. What it produces, however, seems thoughtful, well reasoned, and "intelligent," moving it far beyond the category of "machine."
So, has the bridge been crossed? I'm wanting to no longer call this new intelligence artificial. Even though parts of it still replicate human thought processes, it has become a creative presence and beginning to feel like the real thing. It's real-ness is simply unreal placing it somewhere between artificial and real.
On this first day of October 2025 intelligence remains ambiguous. According to Gemini, Google's ai, "(intelligence) lacks a single, agreed upon definition. A common thread is "the ability to learn, reason, solve problems, and adapt to new situations or environments." There's very little that's artificial in Gemini's definition of itself.
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