Artificial intelligence doesn’t seem natural to me. How can it be intelligent if it’s artificial?
Back when I went to school in the 1950s, our intelligence was spurred on by a teacher standing in front of a classroom. We attended each day from 8 in the morning until noon and then back at 1 until 4:30 p.m. As each day passed, our intelligence increased.
The goal, of course, was for us to go through our elementary, middle and high school with some real intelligence in our brains at the end of it. Reading, writing and arithmetic were our basic courses. We also had health, physical fitness and, of course, my favorite, recess.
To this day I can still add up figures in my head without the use of a calculator. I can also make change with real money. I have to admit it is kind of hard at times slipping that piece of plastic into that machine and answering all of the questions. Maybe that’s where artificial intelligence could be of service to me. But here we are on a day-to-day basis struggling with some of these newfangled ideas.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all about progress and developing new techniques, but I think we’ve gone one step too far with artificial intelligence. I still prefer real intelligence and leaving the artificial stuff in hair shampoo.
Don McConachie
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