Knowledge Channel e revisits the limits of artificial intelligence and the human capacity for emotional awareness, offering a reflection on life in the age of data.
Airing at 25:00 on February 18 and 19 on EBS1, the program presents two episodes titled “Why Can’t AI Read Time?” and “Metasensing, the Power to Recognize Emotion,” exploring both technological boundaries and the essence of human experience.
◆ Why can’t AI read time? The paradox of intelligence trapped in data (February 18)
Artificial intelligence has already become part of daily life, functioning as both an efficient assistant and a companion. It can perform complex calculations and analyze vast amounts of data in an instant. Yet it still shows weaknesses when reading analog clocks or calculating dates.
A research team at the University of Edinburgh found that generative AI correctly reads analog clocks less than 25 percent of the time. Researchers attribute this limitation to AI’s structural dependence on recombining past data rather than experiencing time directly. One robotics expert described it as “being isolated on an island with nothing but books.”
For AI, time exists only as accumulated data, not as the lived flow of day and night experienced by humans. Even in a world where everything is recorded, fleeting moments still exist beyond the reach of data.
Stephen Hawking once warned that artificial intelligence could replace humans. Yet paradoxically, the embodied awareness of living in the present moment remains uniquely human. The episode reflects on the essence of humanity revealed through the limitations of advanced technology.
◆ Metasensing, the power to protect oneself through emotional awareness (February 19)
Advice such as taking a walk when stressed or getting sunlight when sleep is difficult is familiar. But many people struggle to recognize and name their own emotions. Suppressing feelings by saying “I’m fine” can eventually manifest as physical discomfort.
Researchers at UCLA found that when participants labeled their emotions after viewing anxiety-inducing images, their emotional distress decreased. Meanwhile, a medical research team at the State University of New York reported that chronic pain patients who kept journals showed faster stabilization in inflammation levels.
Metasensing is not about controlling emotion but recognizing and understanding the signals arising within oneself. By analyzing emotions, individuals can step outside reactive thought patterns and identify their true needs.
Knowledge Channel e highlights both the limitations of AI, which cannot fully grasp time, and the uniquely human ability to recognize emotion. In the space between technology and feeling, the program invites viewers to reconsider what it means to live in the present.
Reported by News Culture M.J._mj94070777@nc.press
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