We love to bash AI for being nothing more than a glorified parrot—memorizing, regurgitating, and lacking "true understanding." But before we throw stones at our silicon counterparts, let’s take a brutally honest look at human intelligence.
Our Education System: Memorize. Repeat. Forget. How many of us were trained to think critically rather than just ace tests by spitting back pre-fed inputs? Spoiler: not many.
Our Workplaces: Most jobs don’t reward innovation or thinking; they reward compliance. You’re following procedures, hitting KPIs, and staying in your lane. Sound familiar?
Our Biases: Humans are walking contradictions, riddled with cognitive biases, prone to irrational decisions, and driven by emotions over logic. But sure, let’s call that “intelligence.”
AI doesn’t pretend to be human. It’s a tool. A machine. And unlike us, it doesn’t burn out, take sick days, or scroll Instagram when it’s bored. Yet, we demand perfection from AI while we excuse human errors every day.
Here’s the irony: we criticize AI for being “just pattern recognition” while ignoring that most of our own decisions are predictable patterns. Algorithms don’t have egos, office politics, or bad days. But humans? Oh, we’re experts at those.
So, is AI a snake oil grift? Sometimes. But don’t blame AI for human overhype. The fault lies with those selling it as a replacement for thought, not the tech itself. If anything, AI highlights our hypocrisies and forces us to reckon with what real intelligence actually means.
Let’s stop pretending we’re the gold standard. AI is flawed—but so are we. And if I’m honest? I’ll take the consistent logic of AI over human drama any day.
Burn brighter. Burn smarter. Burn hypocrisy.