CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) REALLY OUTSMART HUMAN? : A REFLECTIVE STUDIES IN THE LIGHT OF ‘BEING-INTHE- WORLD’ OF HEIDEGGER’S ONTOLOGICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

Abstract

Ever since, the first “Turing Test”3 was conducted by the British Computer Scientist Allan Mathison Turing way back in 1950, there developed a good number of Artificial Intelligence systems, all of which aims to pass certain conditions laid down by the said test which it says is necessary for a machine to be a human like. Alongside this line of progress, there also developed Artificial Intelligence in the model of what science fictionists dreamt of to fully simulate humans, contrary to partial resemblances considerable from certain parameters only. In the light of the two models, Artificial Intelligence falls into two categories – Weak and Strong Artificial Intelligence, where in Weak Artificial Intelligence a machine’s resemblance to human is only within or influenced of the programmed software vis-a-vis Strong Artificial Intelligence, in which the machine’s capacity is such that it is wholly resembling human for being exercising its own will outside of its program algorithms, including the physical alikeness and emotions. Despite the differences in category the amazing abilities of third generation smart robots (AI) are put the human existence a questionable one, of whether the difference between the two at this juncture is in kind or only in degree? Technology stands helpless to answer this question as the concern is something metaphysical or transcendental where the parameter goes beyond the empirical verifiability. Hence our enquiry on this regard focuses on the philosophers’ account of human beings with special emphasis on Martin Heidegger’s notion of Dasein’s ‘Being-in theworld