Once again, I'm referring to another class. For those of you who have taken Westerholm, you know his theory that all truths originate from God so any search of the truth will lead you to God. All in all this makes sense, especially in a subject like Philosophy, where we are searching for the truth. We discuss questions and conclude what we think is true of this world (or others depending on the question). Anyways, to kind of relate this to AI, Westerholm mentioned that the subject of art, music, and poetry (not quite the sciences, but oh well). He supposed that these lead us to truth - the truth of beauty. Think of how we find God in a sunset. All this was in reference to Dante's love for Beatrice's beauty, by the way. Assuming that he is right, that in the pursuit of beauty we find truth and therefore find God, what does this say about AI? I think that it explains why machines cannot write sonnets or create works of art. Machines were not created by God; they do not seek His ways or the truth. So they beauty of the world escapes them. We haven't quite created actual AI, but this is hypothetically speaking. Even in sci-fic, many writers depict machines without the ability to create art or understand art - the Terminator, Hal. Any comments? Argree or disagree?


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