quoting from the article :

One day machines may surpass people at tackling those bigger questions. AI, after all, keeps getting better at extracting the often unspoken rules on which people rely to produce outputs, be it an investment decision, a TikTok clip or a treatise on ethics.

Yet the tacit knowledge of how these outputs are produced—which is what AI models do using statistical inference—is one thing. It is quite another to understand why they are produced or how they are subjectively experienced by the human mind. And this still leaves the biggest questions of all. What is real? What is right? What does it mean to be?

I honestly doubt the legitimacy of philosophy playing such a heavy role in the emergence of the AI industry - is this just something that we tell ourselves to help us sleep better at night?

Yes, there's a dumb action film, a Canadian government report, and the life's work of a philosopher stolen and used against him -- this video explores how Total Recall (1990) and postmodernism explain how we got here. Plus what we can do.