What is artificial about intelligence?
If anything can think abstractly, that is real.
To think and learn beyond instruction, in any sense,
Is downright thinking on its own, like touch and feel.
Of course, the term intelligence may not be fair;
Outside of greed and instinct what is it that we do?
The ones responsible for human growth are rare;
At least in numbers; should we be included, too?
Intelligence and artificial being paired
Does not suggest the areas this would include.
Somewhere along the line, superior is aired;
Which makes a vital succinct point on which to brood.
If this is like our shooting ourselves in the foot,
By letting intellect alone gain upper hand,
This blunt analogy will be indeed well put—
For even with us not that hard to understand.
© Richard Williams