AI is very powerful in processing large amounts of data, but not in the production of new visions and knowledge, writes Moravec. The idea of 'overcoming or replacing our intelligence has been taken too seriously by the inflationary phase we are in, he says.
The reductionism of intelligence to data management and calculation is what explains why we are ceding power to machines, he writes. Moravet: A critique of algorithmic reason should be a critique of disembodied reason.