NOWADAYS there may be a lot speak about synthetic intelligence. It’s feared that most individuals will lose their jobs, and that clever robots will take over the world, with just a few hundred people stored in cages for members of some future tremendous clever species to take a look at, simply as we take a look at animals within the zoo.
Whereas it’s apparent that we needs to be involved concerning the misuse of synthetic intelligence, I’m wondering why no consideration is being paid to the truth that pure intelligence has virtually disappeared. There was many clever folks in society once I was in my teenagers within the Nineteen Sixties and the pattern continued in later years.
However these days I seldom come throughout folks outfitted with pure intelligence. After all, there are just a few nonetheless round, however the definition of intelligence appears to have modified a bit. We take into account folks ‘clever’ merely if they can stay silent when, say, their wives are yelling at them for forgetting their marriage ceremony anniversary.
Additionally among the many ‘clever’ ones are those that know that when their wives say they are not looking for something for his or her birthday, they really imply something however. Such frivolities apart, human pure intelligence appears to be shedding floor to synthetic intelligence.
As for in the present day’s politicians, the much less mentioned the higher. The one event they show pure intelligence is once they see an opportunity to inflate their private or household wealth, like getting commissions whereas doling out profitable contracts, minting cash somehow.
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
Printed in Daybreak, December fifteenth, 2024
