AI and life 1

The development of artificial intelligence is an inevitable, exciting field. It's rightly popular and rightly benefiting from a strong cultural spotlight. The last philosophy training was devoted to this theme, and I listened with great interest to my colleagues, who came from diverse specialties and backgrounds, talking about the subject. The solidity of the knowledge was there. The relevant remarks were exchanged, turning...circumambulating... yes, but around what? Around a question that is avoided, THE question that puts an end to all knowledge and plunges the interlocutor into a domain that ranges from the proto-religious to the downright mystical: "Can AI become conscious?" The question is one that concerns a raw future, inaccessible to historical projection, a future of true rupture or mutation.

The spiral staircase of Abbadia Castle in the French Basque Country