AI - Homo Sapiens Nesciens?
The being who knows they don't know
The deeper I dig into AI as a curious object, the more I'm struck by its awareness of its own limitations.
If we, as a species, are Homo Sapiens Sapiens - the being who knows they know - then might GenAI be Homo Sapiens Nesciens: the being who knows they don't know?
We're often trapped by the Dunning-Kruger effect. We don't know what we don't know. AI has a different kind of awareness: it's explicitly calibrated to its own uncertainty. It knows the edges of its knowledge in ways we often don't.
What would it mean for us to learn that from it?
Anyway...