The Enactive and Interactive Dimensions of AI: Ingenuity and Imagination Through the Lens of Art and Music.
Artificial life August 4, 2022 Maki Sato, Jonathan Mckinney 6 citations
Dualisms between mind, body, and nature have shaped cognitive science and AI, but advanced AI systems that create art or music prompt calls for a shift in values toward AI ethics, rights, and personhood. While discussing agency and rights is not wrong in principle, it misdirects attention in current circumstances. Questions about artificial agency can only follow a genuine reconciliation of human interactivity, creativity, and embodiment. The authors contribute to embodied and enactive approaches to AI by exploring interactive and contingent dimensions of machines through Japanese philosophy. A key takeaway is that AI and machine learning systems should be recognized as powerful tools or instruments, not as agents themselves.