AI — The Fragmentation of Understanding?

Murat Durmus (CEO @AISOMA_AG)
2 min readFeb 15, 2024
AI — The Fragmentation of Understanding?

A quick thought on this.

As AI bridges gaps in knowledge, it simultaneously expands the abyss of what is unknown or misunderstood between humans and machines and even among humans themselves.

The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once remarked,

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.”

This sentiment echoes profoundly in the context of AI. As we forge ahead, programming machines to think, learn, and create, we often look back, trying to understand the complexities we’ve unleashed. The forward march of AI technology belies a backward glance at the understanding it fragments, leaving us in a perpetual state of catching up with our creations.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s words,

“There are no facts, only interpretations,”

have never been more relevant. AI’s processing of data — the so-called “facts” — is based on interpretations by algorithms designed by inherently biased humans. Thus, the truth becomes not a singular, universal experience but a mosaic of algorithmic interpretations, each differing from the next, further fragmenting our collective understanding.

As we know, AI can serve as both a tool and a teacher, a means of exploring the vast expanses of human knowledge and ignorance.

The fragmentation of understanding, therefore, is not an endpoint but a journey, a process through which we might hopefully find a more profound, albeit complex, unity.

Murat

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Murat Durmus (CEO @AISOMA_AG)
Murat Durmus (CEO @AISOMA_AG)

Written by Murat Durmus (CEO @AISOMA_AG)

CEO & Founder @AISOMA_AG | Author | #ArtificialIntelligence | #CEO | #AI | #AIStrategy | #Leadership | #Philosophy | #AIEthics | (views are my own)

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