Intelligence Smelligence...Who is Smarter?

Are computers really smarter than we are? Can they really do what we do? Is artificial intelligence really going to become better than us?

I want to put a firm stance that no, none of the above are true. It was human intellegence that programmed their intelligence. How can it be smarter than us? It is just another algorithm WE MADE! It solve problems, analyzes information and has a crazy large memory that far exceeds ours. Yes it can calculate faster than us, maybe even do tasks faster than us, but it can't make up for the lack of it's creative ability. It cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction with another human being. It doesn't have a heart....it's "artificial intelligence" not real intelligence.


I first thought about the "artificial" dogs or babies we had growing up....you know the ones that would bark or wag its tail when you pet it, or would cry and fuss if it "needed food or to be held?"

As a child I always thought these were so lame and not worth my time, although there were millions of children in the world that loved them and treated them like they were living. Was it the lack of attention these children needed or social interaction? Is artificial intelligence really trying to take its place?


What's crazy to me, and I think why many people believe that these machines are so much smarter is because of its ability to store memory and spit back information. But as we have discovered in this class is that that's not really what we want anyways. This education system is all about quickly learning the material and regurgitating it back out with no real thought put into it.


That is the beauty of us, as humans, we have the ability to take a step further and use and apply the new information we obtain in any direction or form we want. On the other hand artificial intelligence have to be programmed in, of what to do with the information, otherwise the information would be put in a blank file and never used. Once its actually put into our memory, we have the ability to retrieve that information and apply it however and whenever we want.


Now that I've hopefully convinced you that we are much smarter :) I would like to pose a few questions that have been on my mind about this subject.




What is artificial intelligence really doing to our social interaction with people? 
Is it influencing our learning?


Is it affecting the value of ourselves?

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