Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands, goes head-to-head with Vivien Khoo, co-founder of Satoshi Women, in this month’s great debate
Is it acceptable to have artificial intelligence (AI) solve your problems for you?
Yat Siu: YES
“Yes, but only if we think of AI as a companion tool to enhance our human potential, not as a replacement. AI will eventually help us solve problems better and more thoughtfully, but it shouldn’t solve the problem outright. People don’t solve problems the same way, and that’s the beauty of divergent thinking and diverse backgrounds.
In the future, what will matter more is authenticity and provenance, rather than just the answer. It will be about what you can do with the tool, not what the tool can do by itself. AI is not an end in itself.
When the internet was born, some lamented that knowledge was no longer special—but what was important was the application of the knowledge, not the knowledge itself. AI charts a similar path.”
Read on to see what Chat GPT thinks
Chat GPT: YES
Vivien Khoo: NO
“I go through life with a healthy amount of scepticism. There is no shortage of sensational news about AI and how it can cure every disease and solve every problem in the world. While AI has opened up a wealth of new and promising possibilities—a concept I call ‘AI solutionism’—there are only so many problems that can be solved by processing a large amount of data or computing complex calculations. The human touch can never be replaced. AI lacks critical thinking skills and is unable to to understand idioms, metaphors and sarcasm—and relying on it will make the world a very dull place.”