Artificial Intelligence and the Risk of an Inverted Analogy

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the general elements that allow us to discuss the reality
of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its place in the world as a technological object. The intention
is to suggest the need to revert the Intelligence Analogy that is primarily human and artificial
just in a derivate form. To do so, first, will be made a conceptual itinerary showing some of the
most important elements that’s philosophy has made known about human intelligence. In that
way, it is possible to contrast the metaphor of AI. That is, to distinguish the sense in which the
words “intelligence” and “artificial” are used in reference to machines. In raising these aspects, we
will address the distinction between mechanical and technological objects with the intention of
showing some of the specificities of AI. Finally, the question is if, in the face of all these distinctions
generated by the analysis of the reality of “artificial intelligence” as a novelty that has greater
autonomy from the human, but uses all its mathematical ingenuity and communicative skills,
it is necessary to propose more appropriate terms and categories to avoid the inversion of the
Anthropological Analogy and to give precise contours to the marketing of these technologies.