Any intelligence is good, it could be natural intelligence or artificial intelligence. If you do not have natural intelligence, then artificial intelligence and if you do not have organic intelligence, then synthetic intelligence.
But any intelligence is good if it is intelligence.
Like the walls in your house turn out to be intelligent, is it not good? The only thing is, if they get smarter than you, you may feel a little insecure, Otherwise, having a lot of intelligent things around you is a great blessing.
Someone who wants to be the smartest person around will feel insecure if all the things around him become smarter than him.
It is such a blessing, If you had a pen which could write what you want without you touching it, if there was a phone that would say what you want to say without you having to say it, would it not be nice?
Especially, as external technologies grow, suppose robots start doing all the work you are doing now, what are human beings going to do?
They are already talking about robots that will win the football world cup by 2050.
Your thoughts and emotions are also something that can be artificially created.
As some researchers set up a computer to test how people can have relationships with computers.
Many people had a wonderful relationship with this computer over email, not knowing that it was a computer.
And it was managing this with twenty lines of vocabulary.
Technology is moving in a direction where artificially, a computer will be able to think a million times better than human beings, because thought is fundamentally computing.
Data is assimilate and then it comes out with something sensible from that.
As computers evolve, it will be able to do this far better than a human being.
This evolution is not even going to take a very long time.
It will happen in a short time.
Then there will be no value for human thought.
All the thinkers will be out of business.
But that is only intelligence.
That is not consciousness.
Our thoughts, our emotions, these have nothing to do with consciousness.
When everything is well, what are human beings suppose to do?
Human beings are suppose to be joyful, blissful and do something that no mechanical thing can do.
A robot can do everything that you can do except it cannot meditate because there is no consciousness.
So, ultimately, only meditators will be employed.
Rahul Ram Dwivedi (RRD) is a senior journalist in 2YoDoINDIA.
NOTE : Views expressed are personal.
