“technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
ChatGPT is the center of so much controversy today and brings excitement and concern. Some people see a world of possibilities, while others see a world of dangers. I see both worlds happening simultaneously, but more importantly, I think this dilemma has a deeper meaning that reflects a potential issue in the way science and knowledge have been approached for a long time. Curiously, people are now concerned about the ethics, transparency, interpretability, morals, conscience and values of these new machines and the people using them. However, it seems paradoxical that these characteristics correspond to the metaphysics that was rejected when we adopted the “enlightenment” agenda a few centuries ago, in which Descartes was one of the essential proponents and some of his ideas behind the current mindset of today’s positivist scientific inquiry.
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