Pascal Bornet, A Techno-Biased Prophetic Mountebank

PASCAL BORNET, IRREPLACEABLE, WILEY, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, USA, 2024

It is difficult to conclude on this super hot subject of GenAI and its impact on the symboleracy, literacy, numeracy, and techneracy of Homo Sapiens as a species, a historical species which went and is still going through a phylogeny that brings them all the time to higher points and higher powers. Unluckily it has harmed the planet, and it has at least accelerated its cyclical evolution. Every invention, discovery, or development has expanded human capabilities by extending one physical or mental human capability and thus replacing that human capability with a machine or a mechanical procedure.

Will GenAI replace our human thinking? That question is legitimate, and the answer is “Yes if we do not cultivate the capabilities that the machine cannot reproduce, mimic, or vampirize.” That machine can do what it wants — if it wants anything that is based on the program in its Central Processing Unit — but it will not experience love in any comparable way as a human does. [Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2001] Love, of course, and hatred as well. It may mimic racism and convey racist ideas it has gathered in the clouds of our digital age, but it will not be able to experience the human feelings a racist person…