{"id":450949,"date":"2026-05-20T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:37:12","slug":"ai-cannot-produce-key-element-unique-to-humans-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450949\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cannot produce key element unique to humans \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maureen-dowd\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maureen-dowd\/\">Maureen Dowd<\/a> explains in her piece, (May 18th), those things they make us human: \u201cempathy, emotion, psychology, critical thinking &#8230; they are facets of the human condition that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a> cannot replicate\u201d \u2013 \u201cyet\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Why? Although AI is terrific at logical thinking it cannot produce what we humans can- that \u201cemotional depth\u201d which colours the range of the humanities, that exciting, wonderful corpus of the study of human society, culture and the human experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While we worry about to what dark place the development of AI may be leading, Dowd\u2019s article lifted my spirit and reminded me that all hope is not lost; there is, though, that weasel word still rattling around in my brain \u2013 \u201cyet\u201d. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ALASTAIR CONAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Coulsdon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 As Maureen Dowd explains in her piece, (May 18th), those things they make us human: \u201cempathy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,210797,125],"class_list":["post-450949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}