Humans in the age of AI
AI and ML are set to take over the world.
What are you doing to stay relevant as a human?
If you’re a Millennial, GenZ or GenAlpha, I’ll bet you’ve used ChatGPT or Gemini or CoPilot, some AI tool, to pump up your research, jazz up your essay, or simply give you a “point of departure”, a “structure”, or a “framework”, which you then “customize”, and then passed off that output as your own.
Or, like the rest of humanity, you have had to choose traffic lights, cycles or bridges in pictures, or copy down alphanumeric captcha, or even more funnily, simply checked a box next to a sentence declaring, “I am not a robot”. All to prove that you were a human.
How long before robots figure out how to check a box? More pertinently, what proves that we are human?
Eating, moving, reacting to stimuli, reproducing, are all wonderful things of nature, but there are millions of animals on earth doing the same things, so ho-hum. So merely being sentient is not being human.
Through much of our history, we thought that speaking human languages, being creative with words, numbers or art, were what separated us from all other lowly creatures. We are sapient, with complex brains.
Today, AI can churn out more Shakespeare-style than Shakespeare, more decimals of pi than Shakuntala Devi, and more impressionist paintings than Renoir, Monet or Van Gogh (or indeed, all of them put together). So merely being sapient is not being human.
Computers or AI systems are just so much faster in retrieving data than humans that celerity is no longer considered a human skill requirement. A machine is faster, more efficient, and takes no coffee breaks.
So then, what?
As humans, we are more than the sum of our parts. And a big part of who we are is what we know and how well we know it so that it is literally an extension of who we are.
Participation in contests that invite us to assimilate our knowledge within a competitive space actually helps in fixing that knowledge, thus nicely rounding us out as individuals, and staying ahead of the AI curve. We all need to ensure that we stay relevant. Today and always.
INDAC is a competition that takes participants from the grade and school level all the way to an international platform, calling upon youngsters to tap into their natural intelligence, learning, assimilation and memory skills, and train themselves to make mental connections and associations with knowledge. Preparation for INDAC helps students hone their repertoire of general/social sciences and get a global perspective. The effort of reading, learning, associating and assimilating adds precious nuggets to their crystallized intelligence while helping them pick up new information and thus aiding the development of fluid intelligence as well.
Sign up for INDAC. Compete. Excel. Be human. Conquer the world.
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