In recent decades, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have raised interesting and alarming questions about the possible interaction between machines and humans. The essay explores the pedagogical conflict between humanizing the machine and a machine being humanized within the context of handwriting, posing questions about how technology might influence this form of human expression in light of the dual and conflicting computationalist-cognitive paradigm, as well as the contrast between artificial intelligence and potentially creative minds, between Homo numericus (Cohen, 2023) and Being (or Heideggerian being-there), between graphic spontaneity and graphical artifice, which is increasingly prevalent today. The advancement of AI-based technologies and the continued evolution of digital writing raise more questions than ever about the nature of human identity, existential authenticity, and creativity. On the one hand, this inevitable technological development leads to new, unavoidable forms of expression; on the other hand, it poses a certain educational, formal, and informal action before a pedagogical challenge intent on defining the boundaries between human work, particularly written work, and machine-generated work, while also contemplating their possible and functional interaction in the future.
Umanizzazione della macchina e/o macchina umanizzata? Interrogativi cognitivisti sui possibili scenari futuri della scrittura a mano
ROBERTO TRAVAGLINI
2024
Abstract
In recent decades, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have raised interesting and alarming questions about the possible interaction between machines and humans. The essay explores the pedagogical conflict between humanizing the machine and a machine being humanized within the context of handwriting, posing questions about how technology might influence this form of human expression in light of the dual and conflicting computationalist-cognitive paradigm, as well as the contrast between artificial intelligence and potentially creative minds, between Homo numericus (Cohen, 2023) and Being (or Heideggerian being-there), between graphic spontaneity and graphical artifice, which is increasingly prevalent today. The advancement of AI-based technologies and the continued evolution of digital writing raise more questions than ever about the nature of human identity, existential authenticity, and creativity. On the one hand, this inevitable technological development leads to new, unavoidable forms of expression; on the other hand, it poses a certain educational, formal, and informal action before a pedagogical challenge intent on defining the boundaries between human work, particularly written work, and machine-generated work, while also contemplating their possible and functional interaction in the future.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.