and other conversational interfaces, and the tech giants are described mostly as data companies and as algorithmic prediction businesses.
What I tried to do with this book is not be at one extreme or the other. What’s important to me is to not miss the opportunity to highlight the behavioral impact and consequences that we have already seen artificial intelligence have on us. This is not a book about AI, but about humans in the AI age.
This is a question that can only be answered with some nuance. It is important to highlight the main nuances without seeming like we’re sitting on the fence but can’t take a position. I compare it with other technological devices or inventions. What happens when we automate our most impactful and superior cognitive capacity—thinking—and we don’t think for ourselves?
Interestingly, way before the recent phase of the AI age, if you go back to the 1950s and 1960s a lot of scholars and researchers in the area of creativity noted that one of the main differences between creativity and expertise was that, whereas expertise is the ability to understand something and be in possession of knowledge of information, creativity consists not of having the answers to questions but in asking the right questions.