When Machines Can Think, What Makes Us Human?
Let me start with a question. If a machine could answer almost every question you asked, what would you ask it? Maybe, "Can you solve this maths problem?" Maybe, "Can you write a story?" Or perhaps even... "Can you tell me what I should do?" Now imagine the machine gives you an answer. But you still have to decide: Should I follow it? We are no longer talking only about how intelligent the machine is — we are talking about the wisdom of the human being. And that made me wonder: When machines can think, what makes us human? The Freedom of Choice: Beyond the Algorithm This isn't a completely new question. Thousands of years ago, on a battlefield, a warrior named Arjuna faced a difficult decision. He did not know what the right thing to do was. Standing beside him was Krishna. Krishna could simply have said, "Arjuna, do this. This is the answer." But he didn't. At the very end of the Bhagavad Gita, after all his t...