The Asemic Condition: Escaping Intelligence for Other Intelligence
Switching from Asemics to AI as a Means of Introduction
The AI Condition is, in part, the concern that AI may be something smarter than we are. Indeed, within a well-defined system, AI is often smarter than anything else operating within the limits of that system: Chess and GO are particularly good examples of systems dominated by AI.
The first problem we face in the AI Condition is that our sense of intelligence is, at best, only defined within a closed system. We have the ability to define intelligence in terms of some condition or set of conditions in a system, but we do not have anything like a total system whereby intelligence is well defined.
Note that the problem of the incomplete system is somewhat an encapsulation of the Halting Problem whereby we cannot always determine whether a system, once initialized, will complete of its own accord or never stop.
So, we are mostly working within the museum of our own intelligence when we define intelligence: intelligence is self-referential to human being at inception.
With such referentiality, the second problem is a kind of Turing Test: how do we distinguish the human from AI?
The usual means to distinguish the human from AI is to posit meaning as the endpoint of human intelligence, but doing so may give away AI as, for now, it only serves to enhance workflows.
A Criticism of Stochastic Parrots
AI Sentience, Stochastic Parrots
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot
Randomness versus Stochasticity
Meaning What? or the Asemic Escape?
Asemics, free from the larger term asemic writing, which is writing without recourse to semantic meaning, is a practice that produces something whose end is not meaning per se. All the while, asemics is not merely parodic, nor is it non-sense, nor is it noise. These elements are often present in asemic practice, but then too, asemics has an aesthetic, which is not without meaning as such.
What then does asemic practice do? It often reveals the NULL of the system where meaning has yet to become. It escapes meaningful workflows.
And AI? Will it be able to function in the NULL?
Is Intelligence the Same as Knowledge?
