AI: Artificial? Very. Intelligent? Not!

Artificial Intelligence is great for manipulating data, collating information, automating routine work tasks and plagiarising. But it's not intuitive, original, or creative - key human qualities. Nor is it empathetic, despite programmed obsequiousness, even if at times it passes the TuringTest.

AI is apparently smart but inherently dumb. It's a useful servant but a potentially dangerous master. We need to appreciate the radical differences between even the crudest human mind and the most sophisticated Large Language software such as ChatGPT. The latter is only made possible by poorly paid web serfs in poorer countries annotating the masses of data that American companies need to better train their AI models.

Natural Intelligence

Natural Intelligence transcends data and information and involves real intelligence, intuition and creativity in the higher human cognitive domains of knowledge and wisdom.

21st-century neuroscience gives us insights into what our brain is doing when we are not doing anything. Discovery of the default mode network , a collection of seemingly unrelated areas of the brain that activate when we’re not doing much at all, has offered insights into how the brain functions outside of well-defined tasks and into the role of brain networks - not just brain regions - in managing our internal experience.

This dynamic collaboration between different parts of the brain may hold the key to understanding intuition- literally inner knowledge.

Under a human umbrella

Mimicking simple single brain networks is useful for lower level AI logical tasks. Digital devices are great for handling schedules, tracking tasks and managing information but these need to sit under a human and humane umbrella of values and aspirations, visions and goals.

At the personal level these need to be appropriate for the user's age and stage and distilled into balanced, three dimensional whole life goals. At the work team and organisation levels there needs to be more focus on vision and strategy prior to operational planning.

Complementary attributes of AI and NI

The challenge is to get the balance right between the complementary attributes of NI and AI, with human users carefully framing the questions and being wary of the answers. For example, Google Maps can be a useful GPS navigation tool. It can also lead users dangerously astray when it applies cold logic to produce apparent shortcuts, as can be attested by recent real life Australian survivors

Don't undervalue the role of Natural Intelligence in all its dimensions, especially when it comes to setting a new direction and starting to navigate towards it.

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