We now live in a world where Google knows more facts than we ever will, and AI can write, summarize, analyze, and predict faster than any human. Google can store and retrieve any information and AI can search and give answers to most of well framed questions.
So, what will it really mean to be “intelligent” today and in the coming future?
Will it still be about knowing more than others?
Or will it be about knowing what not to know, what not to overthink, and when not to over analyze?
If the answers are a click away in any language, maybe the real skill will lie in asking better questions, not collecting more information.
Intelligence will be the skill of asking better questions, because answers will be provided by machines. Asking better questions will be the result of observing what is happening in an unbiased, non-partisan way.
If presentations, trainings, and meetings promise clarity, why do we still leave the audience confused and in a state of Learned helplessness?
Maybe intelligence now lies in doing something small, observing the outcome and iterating. Developing the quiet courage of mini experiments over grand plans.
What if progress is no longer about being right but about learning faster?
And what if wisdom, in the AI age, is realizing that while machines predict the future, humans still have to create it?
After all, when everyone is busy presenting and polishing optics for garnering support and votes, someone has to be out there doing and testing with honesty and focussed energy.