Its already writing beautiful poetry. Photo by Aideal Hwa on Unsplash

Before I even delve into the topic, I know that many of you will think this question is insane. How can something thats not human or even real develop feelings or self-awareness?

Consider this. Not too long ago, it was considered crazy to believe in UFOs and aliens.

Yet in July, The House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing on UFOs, officially known as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs. Witnesses claimed they have seen UAPs and that it is common for pilots to do so. Ryan Graves, a witness and former Navy pilot said UAP sightings among commercial and military pilots are both routine and grossly underreported."

Witnesses also claimed that the Pentagon has recovered non-human biologics and ran a program that attempted to retrieve and reverse engineer UAPs.

In a statement ahead of the hearing, Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the subcommittee overseeing the hearing, said: The American people deserve transparency about UAPs, and Congress should work in a bipartisan way to understand any potential national security implications.

The public belief in UAPs and extraterrestrial life is now higher than its ever been. According to this article in The Hill, the share of Americans who believe UFO sightings offer likely proof of alien life rose from 20 percent in 1996 to 34 percent in 2022, according to polls by Newsweek and YouGov.

Isnt that something?

Something that was once believed to be unbelievable, and made people believe you were slightly off kilter if you believed it, is now widely accepted as true.

Artificial intelligence, when it was first developed in the 1950s, was defined as as a machines ability to perform a task that wouldve previously required human intelligence.

In 1952, a computer scientist named Arthur Samuel developed a program to play checkers, which is the first to ever learn the game independently.

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