In the first part of the series on artificial intelligence, we explained that developed expert systems are not really intelligent, on the example of chess, and that the famous ‘AI’ is just a label. Today we will discuss various criteria a machine should meet in order to truly be considered artificial intelligence…

The first criterion is very simple: As long as there is a cable that you can pull out and turn off the machine, there is no artificial intelligence.

Intelligence implies self-awareness and self-sufficiency. Self-awareness, as awareness of one’s own existence, is the easiest to simulate through an extensive expert system. That’s your GPT Chatbot. But self-awareness implies something else, more things that are much more difficult to simulate. For example, intelligence implies a tendency towards self-reproduction, as the brilliant Polish writer and philosopher Stanisław Lem described it through necro-evolution in the novel “The Invincible”.

Then we have curiosity, as the ability for the machine itself to choose which information to adopt, without human mediation, influence and bias. Another sure sign of intelligence is a sense of humor. Try telling the GPT Chatbot a silly joke by the late Serbian TV star Minimax. You will find neither a sense of humor nor curiosity to explain seemingly absurd connections.

Curiosity is the basis for the next very important criterion of intelligence (to which we will return) – creativity. There are people who admire the ability of ‘artificial intelligence’ to write an essay on some literary work or to create an oil painting, completely in the style of a great painter. It’s just that in reality all of that has nothing to do with intelligence, but again, with the amount of data entered into the expert system. Essays are easy to compose from pre-existing saved considerations. The more famous the work you want to write an essay about, the better the ‘composition’ you will get. As for the pictures, you can check the creativity of the ‘artificial intelligence’ very easily. There are already a lot of examples online where ‘AI’ paints people with strange anatomy, six or more fingers, or no fingers, or no toes, or three legs. Examples from Craiyon.com:

For example, one of the best free image generators with ‘artificial intelligence’ ruDALL-E.com reacts like this to the query ‘cats playing chess in the snow’:

So, there is probably no bigger database of photos on the net than the one with cats. Chess also has a lot of photos and information, and yet the ‘artificial intelligence’ can’t put together anything meaningful. Here is an example with the same query on the Craiyon.com platform:

The inability of today's expert systems, among other things, is caused by the fact that they were created (programmed) from the beginning with a very specific purpose that has nothing to do with intelligence. Let’s look at a reverse example of trying out ‘artificial intelligence’. There's a great woman at Bastyon.com platform who tests ruDALL-E.com with the oil painting portraits and very often sends her own photos of poppy flowers. She recently started experimenting with nonsensical input, and just look at the result:

So neither intelligence nor creativity, but obviously there is data about what a person likes! There is control and surveillance! The danger is real. And that brings us to the key question that we are going to answer in the final and scariest part of this series:

Who needs fake artificial intelligence and why?