@eturnerx - humans and robots, being different species (one creates the other right now, but the situation could be reversed in the future) are naturally good at different things and suited for different types of environments. We shouldn't get people to do things robots/AI are good at and vice versa. I think a mutually beneficial relationship is the best way forward in the AI debate.
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AIs aren't yet smart enough to call them a species. They are still tools - slightly enhanced rocks. But, I do agree with you that it is most productive for humans and AIs to be employed to do what they do best. That does mean having conversations about just what AIs are capable of doing. Right now it appears we're in another AI summer where AI is being over promised.
@eturnerx - going by our current and incomplete understanding of the word intelligence (sadly, still based on most of the work from research into IQ) we will only be able of programming AI that are glorified forms of calculators. But what makes us unique (if there is such a thing) if our ability to hold two opposing thoughts in our head and deal with so much cognitive dissonance + biases without going crazy. Try programming that into an AI :D
Until we understand and appreciate all forms of intelligence, we will be stuck with AI that is no smarter than people who are lacking in emotions and spirituality, but apparently you don't need much of it to survive in the modern world anyway...
I think it's creative people that are able to hold paradoxes and refuse to resolve them until it becomes time to act - and only in that single action. Engaging paradoxes is one technique I've seen Zen masters use to try overload the rational mind so the person can glimpse Satori.
A symbolic based AI finds this kind of compartmentalisation extremely difficult to work with since everything must make sense at all times; I'd go as far as to say that symbolic AIs cannot compartmentalise unless it incorporate a sense of time.
A non-symbolic AI (like a neural net) can compartmentalise provided they have sufficient structural depth to do so. Think of it like each layer in a neural net being a time step "above" the lower layer. That's why I think time is important to a mind :)
But now I'm getting into crack-pot territory. Haha.
Well, I have about as much chance of understanding quantum computing and the multiverse as I have of becoming enlightened. Maybe you do need to get into crack-pot territory to get there... looking forward to your next post :)
Partway through a post on the Steemit Logo. It's taking a long time to distill out those concepts we visual designers have special language for.
We UX designers don't have any special languages (unless you count fancy BS jargons as an intelligible form of communication) :D
UX is a new field. It'll take time and some egos too sure of their way of seeing things before you get some shared language. :P