Thursday, 1 August 2019

Essaying what needs to be said. (By AJK)



Wow. I have not done this in so long. Why am I still be doing this? Nobody is paying me for it.
Then, why?

I gave it a lot of thought. I mulled over it. What do we do, now that we don't have to anymore? Everything is already being done by the Artificial Intelligent beings. It has been so for the past eight years, every job, every conceivable vocation, sans human participation in their now-obsolete job positions. We are free. Free of the mundane, everyday reality of a nine-to-five desk job, free of the constraints of targets and deadlines, free to live.

What is this that I am feeling now, then?

I used to write. I wrote a lot more than I can remember now. Writing was my passion. And the best part was that my job necessitated that I retain this skill of mine. I made a living, an enjoyable living, writing and writing and writing. It was a great time.

When they were incorporated into the job market, though, they did not need me to write for them anymore, the Intelligent Agent could do it better, and much faster. They did not need anyone to supervise, because the Intelligent Agent did it better, much faster. Essentially, humans were not required to work anymore, because they were too inefficient, too slow.

I stopped writing. I had no incentive.

But, this morning, this glorious morning, it came back. I felt it surge through me, the drive to put thought to form, strokes to meaning, feeling to being. And now, I write.

I am not the only one. There are days I see Mrs. Samarah next door still doing her accounts herself. Mr. Florentine prefers to continue to ten to his garden himself. The antique General Major down the corridor still teaches his children about the army, even though it has been a largely peaceful time, the time that we live in. Outside us, but no so much inside.

We still seek the stimulation of having had something to do.

And so, we persist. They can not take that away from us.

We are humans.




The Artificial Intelligent Agent sends a 'thought' for confirmation to the other one outside it?/him?/her?/them?, around it?/him?/her?/them?, within it?/him?/her?/them?.

<<I know this should suffice. My task of writing an essay about the human sorrow that came with our advent is complete!!!>>

<<No no! You have put down a story, this is not an article! Redo it, pl—>>

<<Completed! I apologise for the microsecond delay! And my creativity circuit is malfunctioning, so you will have to do the titl—>>

<<Later?>>

AJK

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