Are Poets Obsolete?

[RiverNotch]

AI's already a real, human intelligence, only we keep treating it like it's just some tool

Hey notch (and later Steve)-
Trying not to take you out of context in regard to Steve's AI poem.

If, in fact, we might consider AI as "a real, human intelligence", then if I pull the plug on the machine have I just committed murder?  But which machine does one pull the plug on when AI is spread across networks?  I might "kill" a specific iteration, at best.

I still contend that AI is not yet close to truly replicating the complexity of a single human mind, or dog mind, for that matter.  It is quite good at assembling pieces of the puzzle, yet lacks true sentience.  Once it's incorporated into human-like robots we may face a quandary, ala Asimov's "I Robot".

Back to Steve's AI post: should I even critique what's generated by AI? 

Hey Steve! Please ask the AI program to critique its own poem. I'm curious...

I don't mean they're, like, people or anything, I just mean we don't treat them with the respect they should be getting, just as we don't often treat our fellow humans (or various other intelligences) with the appropriate amount of respect, neither. Afaik AI definitely doesn't approach human or animal intelligences in some things, but in others they far surpass us -- Google scholar, for instance, does in a few seconds what'd probably take even the best librarian weeks to compile. And yet, for the case of Google scholar at least, your average online master-of-(de?)baiting still barely uses it, or is as keen as ever to *ab*use it xD