I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. If someone told me that we could achieve all that we have now in such a short time, I would have doubted it. Back in the day, to carry out any academic research, we had no other choice than to visit the library. Then we moved to the stage where we could actually get our research done from the comfort of our rooms and not necessarily visit the library. With books and documents we can find online, life became a bit easier, and research was done without stressing so much anymore.
Over time we have advanced to the stage of just giving AI the topic we want to research, and in seconds it has presented us with a work we could have taken weeks or even months to put together, but the question is, does the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to get things done so fast make it smarter than humans? My answer to this is a big no. AI is in no way smarter than humans for so many reasons because humans are actually the ones (like the brain) behind every functioning AI. If humans are able to put together the code that keeps an AI running, how then is an AI smarter than those who, if removed from the picture, cannot function on their own?
No doubt that AI is faster; it provides us with the solution in minutes or even seconds while humans take longer, but they will eventually arrive at the same point or destination. It is fast enough because it is a tool, or should I say a machine, and we all know what machines are and how they were defined for us in high school: any device that helps you overcome a task faster and more efficiently is considered a machine. AI can do it; it does not mean humans cannot do it. It is just that humans cannot do it as fast as AI could.
If you remove humans from the picture, AI cannot function. AI needs humans to keep their codes running and make sure they are running effectively; they need humans to give them the instructions and what to work on. With humans, AI won't function, but humans can function effectively without AI. We have been functioning effectively before the existence of AI, so even if removed from the picture, humans can still survive, but if humans are removed from the picture, it will be the end of AI. AI is only faster but not smarter; if AI were that smart, then I think it should have brought itself to existence and not be waiting for humans to run or program codes for it to live on.
Also, like I said earlier, humans program codes for AI to live on, and they cannot do more than they are programmed to do, which gives humans an upper hand over AI because we don't have a program that will restrict us from gaining access to certain things; we can do things how we want when we want, while for AI it is completely different. They have restraints because they cannot go against their codes or do more than they are programmed to do. Humans also have things like emotions that help them to judge better compared to AI with zero emotions.
