Intelligence is essential for humanity, as it can isolate important information from the environment and systematize it into knowledge used to solve specific problems. In the modern world, firms and businesses often use not only human intelligence but also artificial intelligence (AI). AI performs many tasks of processing large amounts of information, such as monitoring the legality of using logos on the Internet (Laudon & Laudon, 2019). However, at the moment, there are striking differences between human and artificial intelligence and the work they can do more successfully.
AI and human intelligence have fundamentally different qualities and cognitive abilities. The human intellect is a complex neurobiological mechanism geared towards processing reality, identifying problems, and seeking answers to problems. In contrast, AI is a recent advancement in information technology, enabling coordination and integration between people and technology (Korteling et al., 2021). AI replicates the logic of human thought patterns to structure work with large volumes of data and software. AI only uses human-programmed logic to solve special-purpose problems and has no creative reasoning capability (Korteling et al., 2021). In general, AI is a mechanism for solving problems and tasks that a person has already set.
There is a debate among many AI experts and enthusiasts about what level of development AI can achieve. Experts often point out that non-biological intelligence is likely to be another form of intelligence that functions differently from human intelligence. However, this does not mean that AI is not intelligent at the moment, as some AIs can successfully “autonomously and efficiently achieve complex goals in a wide range of environments” (Korteling et al., 2021). It means that they can study given environments, accumulate and structure information, self-learn, and look for possible problems that need to be solved. Talking about the emergence of self-awareness in AI and the ability to understand the physical world, it seems that the appearance of this soon is doubtful since AI is oriented to perform other cognitive tasks.
References
Laudon, K. C., & Laudon J. P. (2019). Management Information Systems: Managing the digital firm (16th ed.). Pearson.
Korteling, J. H., van de Boer-Visschedijk, G. C., Blankendaal, R. A., Boonekamp, R. C., & Eikelboom, A. R. (2021). Human-versus artificial intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4, 622364. Web.