Today, people are misled by AI because of a phenomenon known as the Eliza effect. Eliza is an early NLP program created in 966 at MIT. Eliza responded to peoples typed statements in the manner of a Rogerian psychotherapist. The computer running Eliza program was executing some very simple logic. But the people interacting with it ascribed emotional intelligence and empathy to all Elizas replies. The same phenomenon is happening today in our reactions to the successes of AI. People overestimate the achievement of AI and underestimate human performance because we do not take a second to think about how much humans already know.
All aspects of the human brain cannot be simulated by a machine. From Buddhism perspective also, it is believed that human possesses an extraordinary knowledge and wisdom which cannot be matched by anything in the universe. Human knowledge is infinite like a universe; every second, new knowledge is acquired. Unlike a human, AI systems can only do things effectively, efficiently, and precisely in what it is programmed to do. Nothing more, nothing less. Human expertise that is compared with an AI mac
hine one second ago is not the same after that second. He would have learned new thing in that split second. AI machine is the same; if a new learning mechanism is to be added into AI, it has to be redesigned, coded, and implemented in the algorithm. Consider a hypothetical example of an AI robot preparing Emadatshi rice (the unofficial national dish of Bhutan) menu. Let us compare an AI robot and Bhutanese top chef who is curious to learn new things in cooking. If we make AI robot prepare Emadatshi rice 00 times, it is going to prepare the same menu with the same taste and flavour. On the other hand, the menu prepared by the human chef today will be the same as yesterday, but the taste and flavour will be different. He would have learned on how to improve the menu just like all chefs do. An AI robot is simply going to prepare the menu as per the algorithm programmed without putting his heart, soul, and emotions. However, a human chef would do what AI robot lacks. Unlike human, an AI robot does not have a self-learning capability. It has to depend on the developer or it is already programmed to prepare in different ways.