Problema y programa de Platón ante la retórica algorítmica del CHATBOT

In January 2025, the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek renewed the interest in the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence to replace human intelligence, which does not mean that the new engine has modified the moral question concerned by the debate. We avoid the geopolitical discussion on technological dominance to focus on the issue of the difference between artificial progression and the human condition. The issue is to what extent technological acceleration can supplant intelligencein the construction of discourse. In 2023, Roberts, a professor at Cambridge, Watumull, an AI specialist, and the famous linguist Chomsky discussed this issue in a controversial article open to readers in The New York Times. Based on Humboldt’s Platonic conception that language is a set of finite means for infinite uses, they showed that technological capacity is not comparable tohuman creativity. Ortega y Gasset also drew on the Platonic program and Humboldt to argue thatthe machine will always lag behind human use because linguistic automatisms are rhetorical and irreducible to complete mechanization. Thus, he returned to the Platonic tradition of art as mimetic learning whose product is an artistic original.