What do we want from AI?

Nice post from Matt Ballantine on why AI need not be such a challenge if we know the real reasons why we do the things we do.

Ultimately it comes down to why we do the things that we do. I write to try to make sense of the world. I of course could ask a chat AI to create a blog article in the style of Matt Ballantine on the theme of AI using de Vaucanson’s duck as a metaphor, but what would be the point? I wouldn’t have spent the weekend with the ideas bouncing around at the back of my head with the idea of this piece being a way to structure my thinking. I would have learned nothing. And most importantly, neither would the AI.