In Search of the Most Misunderstood Idea of Our Time
Artificial Intelligence(AI) has become the most mentioned and quoted word of our age and repeated with the confidence of a established concept, invoked as if it were self-evident, and used interchangeably to describe everything from search engines to self-driving cars to the large language models (LLM such as ChatGPT) that now populate our browsers. The word appears everywhere – in newspapers, online media, and parliamentary white papers – and is circulated by everyone from children to the elderly. But it seems like something important remains strangely missing.
We rarely stop asking the most basic question: What exactly are we talking about when we talk about artificial intelligence?
AI is simultaneously hailed as the next industrial revolution and feared as a potential competitor to humanity. It’s welcomed as a collaborator helping us overcome current limitations, dismissed as mere statistical trickery using data, and even mythologized as humanity’s new partner. But beneath all these conflicting narratives lies an inconvenient truth: there’s no consensus on what the word “intelligence” means in this context.
We, Polyview.online, were founded on a commitment to philosophical skepticism. Not skepticism as mere doubt, but skepticism as a stance against the inertia of familiarity. We seek the unfamiliar within the obvious. We seek to rethink concepts that have become so commonplace and familiar that their solid meaning has evaporated, vanishing into thin air.
Artificial intelligence, we believe, is precisely such a concept.
Not because technology itself is trivial, but because the idea itself is so grand—too grand to be left to marketing strategies, political slogans, or technological determinism.
Reveal the Hidden Identity
So, we are planning a series called: “What Is Artificial Intelligence?”
Perhaps it could be a mystery genre. Since a mystery is something that is difficult to understand or explain.
We aim to pose philosophical questions for readers who reject socially determined answers, maintain intellectual independence, and seek clarity beyond the noise.
Over the coming weeks, we will dissect the central assumptions behind the current AI discourse. We will not offer predictions about market trends or sensational warnings of apocalypse. Instead, we will ask the following questions and try to find the answers together:
- What you mean when you say “intelligence.”?
- When and why come to label machines as intelligent?
- Is artificial intelligence really a machine that can think like humans?
- If artificial intelligence is a human-like machine, will it also have emotions?
- Is composing music, drawing, and writing evidence that AI is as creative as Human?
- Is artificial intelligence omnipotent?
- If artificial intelligence ever surpasses humans, will it pose a threat to humanity?
This journey is not for readers seeking comfort. It is for those who embrace conceptual discomfort, who believe that technology is reshaping not only our world but the very language through which we understand ourselves.
Welcome to the discussion.
