Artificial intelligence

Irish Times -   After decades of dismissing liberal arts and humanities studies as useless and insisting that the mastery of science, engineering, maths and tech (STEM) is essential to future success, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable asset in the coming artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

As it turns out, tech jobs may be drying up after years of students rushing to computer science. Who needs to code? AI does that for you.

What AI can’t do – yet – is the stuff that makes us human: empathy, emotion, psychology, critical thinking. “What a piece of work is man,” Hamlet said, describing an intricate and infinite creature.

“I think AI is a false mirror,” said Drew Lichtenberg, the dramaturge, or literary adviser, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. “It reflects back answers to black-or-white questions, but it does little to help explain the human experience the way art or philosophy can.”

Daniela Amodei, a founder of Anthropic, told ABC News that “the things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important”. She said that at Anthropic the company was looking to hire people who were “compassionate and curious” about other people.