Before we talk about artificial intelligence, think about real intelligence for a minute. We measure it with an Intelligence Quotient (IQ) where a score of 100 is average intelligence.
These IQ tests are not a true measure of one’s intelligence. They really measure social awareness, cleverness or one’s ability to reason by association. But a computer may be able to score fairly high in this regard.
Social awareness is very subjective, a computer could compete very well against a human. Cognitive awareness, on the other hand, should give the competitive edge to humans.
Except for the fact that humans are devolving at a frightful rate. Their cognitive awareness is in the toilet. For a good example of this, drive on the freeway of a large metropolitan area for an hour.
If the average human IQ continues to decline, then computers will continue to gain an edge in the area of artificial intelligence. As humans start to rely on computers to do their thinking then the gap will continue to widen.
Their will always be some humans who individually are smarter than computers. Certainly the ones who built the AI. But we find ourselves in an era where the human with a low or average intelligence is less inclined to trust or listen to the smart humans. This paints a grim picture for humanity.
There is an old saying, “He who is clever is stupid.” It took me many years to come to any understanding behind this aphorism.