AI hype and reality is confusing, but also an opportunity
“For a tear is an intellectual thing.” William Blake
To read the headlines, you would think that intelligence is about processing information, solving problems and collecting data. But it’s not.
Real intelligence is about understanding, richness and the shining beauty of life; there should be a campaign. It shows up not primarily as answers but as sharp wit, not as facts but an alive, dynamic, on occasion surprising wisdom. Moreover, intelligence is not private, as if springing from bone-encased skulls, but shared. It is not a product of calculation but perception.
The growing presence of AI is, therefore, a moment to reappraise capacities such as sympathy and imagination, yearning and love, as well as discover how intelligence is not only a human possession but enlivens and sustains all things.
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