Humans have always been considered as the most intelligent beings on earth, by humans themselves. Looking at what we have been able to achieve in whatever time we have spent on earth, compared to other earth beings, it doesn't seems wrong. We, the humans, have always tried to find ways to get things done without doing much. Maybe laziness is one of our primary feature or maybe we are way too greedy. From stone age we moved to bronze & from bronze we moved to iron age. Ever since we reached industrial age (late 18th century) we have been contemplating about automation. The world has been working day & night on making the humanoid-machine a reality. In last few decades, we have almost made it possible with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now, at this verge of infinite possibilities, we are faced with a question of whether these AI's will be human-alike or they will be a totally different thing. Should we continue with only AI's or are there any other alternatives too?

The AI's we are building or the AI's that we will build in future will never be human-alike. No matter how hard do we try. No matter how many algorithms or technologies we may bring with time. It just won't happen. And it's not because AI's are machines, different than our biological system. It's because with time, AI will grow on it's own path & there is every chance that it won't be same as we, the humans, want to believe. AI's will grow differently than with the intent we started imagining & later, programming them. Yes, they will be an aid to human beings, but they won't be just that. They will be much much more than that. At any stage in present or near future we will always be undermining the capabilities of AI. Not because we don't know this, but because we know AI's are gonna move way ahead of where humanity has ever gone in it's history.

We keep on saying we will reach a point (singularity) one day when AI will surpass human intelligence, but we are far away from that at present. Yes, for now it seems like AI is extremely young. However, the point to note is, it's growing at a tremendous pace, almost exponentially. For comparison let me tell you, it is estimated that it took a single cell four hundred thousand years to reach a stage where it could have movement. For AI, it took a few decades only. AI is learning far more than what we are teaching. The worse thing is, we only understand the part that as a human we understand with other humans. AI's have already started showing signs of intelligence better than humans. For example, Facebook chat-bots developed their own shorthand language to converse when the developers made an err by not defining the set of rules for language to be used in conversation. It doesn't look like we are too far away from singularity point. The current technological trends are showing a clear sign of this tremendous growth. We have moved from a single transistor & diode to millions on a single integrated chip (IC) in less than a century. From stone age to industrial age & from industrial age to today, we have reached information age. There is a big boom of data & this trend has been on rise at a phenomenal rate for past three decades, thanks to internet & world wide web (WWW). Today, everything is growing at a rate faster than what we have estimated in past or for that matter, even faster than our current estimations.

AI's have gone past that baby-age & are now somewhere in between that teen-age & baby-past age in terms of human age measurements. Very soon it will reach its teen years & by the time it reaches midway of that teen-age, it will be out of our hands. Not because our human teenagers are difficult to control, which is true, but because they will actually be difficult for humans, in every manner. Certainly not in a way that it will start killing humans & make us go extinct, but in the terms of growth, intelligence & capacity of almost everything.

Our intelligence is suppressed in this abundance. We can use only a meager percentage of our brain. I don't know if someone did that to us & we evolved this way. Whatever the case be, we are limited in our capability unlike our imagination, which isn't. Against all those favorable odds, that most of us know is a lie, we won't be able to control AI. We won't be able to suppress their growth. They are meant to go beyond us & they eventually will cross us sooner than we thought. In such a scenario, the question is what should we, as a race in this universe, should be looking forward to in order to ensure we are not the next dinosaurs. AI's won't kill us. Most probably they won't. My fear is, we ourselves will kill us. We ourselves are killing the human race. For as far as I can see in the human history, we have always been doing this thing for ever since we came to this earth (I'm not sure about human history before Earth).

Information extraction is the key to the survival of human race. Exploring & making ways to extract data from those underutilized genes that consists of trillions of bytes of data will decide how far human history will go. To go forward, we have to go backwards. We need to be aware about our past. What are we? How? When? Why? etc. are just some of those trillion dollar unanswered questions. We have to understand ourselves, explore ourselves in order to move forward. That's the only way, or else with every generation, we are becoming extinct. Not in terms of population, we have done remarkably well in numbers, but in the terms of core knowledge we have. We have computers, technologies & many brilliant stuffs. We are making unimaginable discoveries every other day, but the problem is as we are moving forward, we are losing out on the past that consists of our major part. We have reached the industrial age only a couple of centuries ago, but human history goes millions of years back. These millions of lost years have the key to out future, to our survival.

Our genes hold tremendous information which we have not been able to explore up till now. We have known for generations that a generation passes information to it's next generation via some way. Recently we have been able to link the information passing element to genes. We now have some idea about how information is passed or how our brain is able to control humongous amount of information in our body. We have never been this much technologically capable. For the first time, in human history, a generation has the technology to explore its past. We, the humans, are better than what we have evolved or been genetically bound-programmed into. Now seems like the best time to start understanding, accepting, searching, researching, analyzing & scrutinizing on the questions we have never been able to answer.

In nut shell, AI's are an exciting future to have, but it isn't the AI's that will take us forward but our own information exploration from these previously taken for granted data houses: genes, that will decide how much more we can go ahead in this immense, unstably stable universe. AI's are not human. They can never be. They are a totally different beings. Yes, you read it right. They are beings now. If you are confused, let me tell you about Sophia, an AI, has recently been given citizenship in Saudi Arabia. So, it's time we start accepting this fact & stop fantasizing about turning machines into humans. They can be & I hope they will be human friendly but not a human.