You are who puts THE DOT to the i of AI!

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This article is translated with the asistance of ChatGPT.

There’s a lot at stake in the world right now around AI.

Many are selling fear, and others even claim that “AI will have the power of God” — as Mo Gawdat, former director at Google X, once said.

But that’s an illusion!

The truth is —and I repeat it to the four winds— AI has only one of the many faculties of our mind: pattern recognition. From that single ability, we’ve taught it to simulate all kinds of human capacities. The key word here is: simulated (PERIOD).

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I asked ChatGPT to list everything our human mind can do. This is what it gave me — and I’m sharing it with you so you can see the obvious:

🧠 1. Basic Cognitive Skills

• Perception (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)

• Attention (selective, sustained, divided)

• Memory (sensory, short-term, long-term, episodic, semantic, procedural)

• Information processing

• Pattern recognition

• Spatial and temporal orientation

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🧠 2. Thinking and Reasoning Skills

• Logical thinking

• Deductive and inductive reasoning

• Critical thinking

• Abstract thinking

• Lateral or creative thinking

• Analytical thinking

• Problem solving

• Decision making

• Evaluation and judgment

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🧠 3. Language and Communication Skills

• Verbal comprehension

• Speech production

• Reading and writing

• Symbolic language

• Storytelling and metaphor

• Active listening

• Verbal empathy

• Nonverbal communication

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🧠 4. Metacognitive Skills

• Self-awareness

• Reflection

• Impulse control

• Emotional regulation

• Ability to monitor thinking

• Learning to learn

• Self-assessment of knowledge

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🧠 5. Multiple Intelligences (according to Howard Gardner)

• Linguistic-verbal

• Logical-mathematical

• Visual-spatial

• Bodily-kinesthetic

• Musical

• Interpersonal

• Intrapersonal

• Naturalistic

• Existential (controversial but suggested by Gardner)

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🧠 6. Emotional and Social Skills

• Emotion recognition (own and others')

• Empathy

• Conflict management

• Assertiveness

• Intrinsic motivation

• Self-esteem

• Cooperation

• Influence and persuasion

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🧠 7. Creative and Imaginative Skills

• Visualization

• Active imagination

• Idea synthesis

• Creation of fictional or alternative worlds

• Metaphor and innovation

• Symbolic play

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🧠 8. Ethical and Moral Skills

• Moral awareness

• Ethical judgment

• Valuation of good and evil

• Capacity for sacrifice

• Personal and collective responsibility

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🧠 9. Volitional Skills

• Willpower

• Determination

• Discipline

• Resilience

• Patience

• Persistence

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🧠 10. Spiritual / Transcendental Skills (depend on cultural or personal framework)

• Search for meaning

• Deep intuition

• Contemplation

• Inner silence

• Mystical experience

• Connection with the transcendent or absolute

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As you can see, pattern recognition is just a drop in this ocean.

Don’t be fooled: you and your mind are capable of feats never seen before; if we discover our purpose, if we focus, there is nothing and no one that can stop us. The capacity we unleash as we uncover our purpose and discover the meaning of life is so great that, no matter how much of it you’ve already uncover, you’ll never reach its full potential — not even in a hundred years. Don’t listen to snake charmers or AI gurus. Instead, discover what it is you truly want to find and do with your life — and use this powerful tool to help you do it.

Artificial intelligence has no meaning without the human kind. We are the ones who give it direction, intention, and purpose. We are the ones who put THE DOT on the “i” of the AI…

Of course, it’s clear that we cannot create an intelligence with purpose, because purpose is precisely what we are continuously seeking throughout our lives — we cannot create what we haven’t fully uncovered in ourselves!

And by the way, that’s what so many are calling Artificial General Intelligence. We will never create it. It’s an illusion. We’re chasing something we ourselves have yet to become.

This column seeks to awaken your own abilities so you can discover what’s truly worth your energy — and use AI to get the most out of its artificial side. You must be the one to bring the intelligence.

The artificial can do a lot… but only you can decide what’s worth doing. And that —that which is worth it— is where your intelligence makes the difference.

Come and discover how!

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"AI: Friend or Foe?"