When large amounts of data and many factors come together, artificial intelligence is superior to human intelligence. However, only humans can think logically and distinguish between useful and worthless AI advice.
“Teach us to think that we must die”
this is what the Luther Bible from 1912 says in Psalm 90. American tech stars such as Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos or the investor legend Peter Thiel do not believe in such humility, but instead, let billions of dollars go to decipher the mystery of why people age and die.
If the three business leaders blindly believed the computer, there would be a more pleasant way for them to at least postpone death: drink more champagne. Because the analysis of many data and influencing factors provides the clear connection that with increasing champagne consumption the life expectancy rises.
Although it is not well known how much Dom Pérignon the billionaires drink per week. What is certain, however, is that each of them ignores this connection. For it is not the supposedly protective effect of sparkling wine, but the prosperity of its drinkers, which promotes the consumption of the noble drink, paired with better health care, that makes the notorious friends of the sparkling wine live longer.
This champagne trap, as I call it, is characteristic of the misunderstandings and myths that circulate about artificial intelligence (AI), but also of its strengths and benefits that man can take advantage of. For artificial intelligence is nothing more than a very specific form of learning, namely machine learning.
This learning is limited and unlimited at the same time. Unlimited, because machine learning is vastly superior to the physical learning of the human brain, as more and more powerful computers can perform more and more operations in tiny fractions of a second. Thus, machine thinking provides people with patterns that they can never recognize or only recognize in an unacceptably long time. However, machine thinking is limited because a computer only detects patterns. The sense and logic behind it — see the champagne trap — can only be recognized by humans.
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