I had thought of this analogy. I saw a cousin of it on LinkedIn today. I figured I’ll get my thoughts down on paper before it’s bastardised out of recognition.
The thought struck me when I was packing my camera case. I was handling the instruction manual and I realised, this small booklet holds all the technical knowledge needed to operate this camera.
I can read it and learn to operate the camera really well. Yet, I wouldn’t have learnt the first thing about photography.
A good photographer would, no doubt, need a strong grasp of technique. Yet, technique by itself doesn’t mean much.
The question, of course, is that which parts of AI are like a camera and which ones are like a calculator. Or for that matter, which parts of life.
If you get talking about life, though, the more important question is that which parts of life are like neither?