This analogy doesn’t really work, because the former examples are ones in which humanity discovered that it existed in a larger world.
The recent AI example is humanity building, or attempting to build, a tool complex enough to mimic a human being.
If anything, you could use recent AI developments as proof of humanity’s uniqueness - what other animal is creating things of such a scale and complexity?
The recent AI example is humanity building, or attempting to build, a tool complex enough to mimic a human being.
If anything, you could use recent AI developments as proof of humanity’s uniqueness - what other animal is creating things of such a scale and complexity?