The challenge of Artificial Intelligence
It seems as if the current concern about the AI (Artificial Intelligence) is due to the fact that we intend to achieve a kind of universal panacea, a next-generation tool. Said tool would be destined to replace us in those mental or organizational efforts that are most painful for us (because they require a large amount of mental energy from us); although, it is a desire not exempt from fear of being subdued or displaced at some point (there are numerous dystopias in this regard), by this prodigious tool.
Both desire and fear seem unfounded to us, in view of the limited development that AI still has for these objectives, which leads us to think that it is neither a threat nor a panacea.
Because, we think, the AI is developing from copying learning patterns (for example, through the so-called “neural networks”), after observing and imitating the functioning of the human brain. It does this, often by ignoring or, worse still, confusing the rules of affective information processing; precisely because the most influential thinkers in this area of knowledge (Goleman, Mayer, Bar-On…) have not developed explanatory models of that affective processing of the information, which they have guarantees of success in that explanation[1].
We offer a model of affective processing of information, which can give us certain guarantees of effective contribution to the current model of AI.
Finally, we express our reservations towards predictions that see AI as a threat or a panacea. Rather, we are inclined to consider that a correct study and correct advanced development of AI can provide us with ideas towards our own form of Natural Intelligence (NI), and with the advantage of offering us solutions for optimal functioning of the latter (NI), including dysfunctions.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Affectivity, Emotions, Neuroscience.
