AI Is Time’s Second Gift To Mankind After Fire: CM

Chennai: Describing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the second gift to mankind after fire, Chief Minister M K Stalin urged the student community to make use of the technology available to them to rise to dizzy heights in their life by reaching the top in their chosen careers and also remember the fact that mastering technology was no more an option for them.

Speaking at an event at the Chennai Trade Centre marking the distribution of 10 lakh laptops to college students across the State in the first phase of the scheme, ‘The World is in Your hands,’ to equip 20 lakh students with laptops, Stalin told the beneficiaries to use the laptops as a launch pad for their career and not to consider it as a mere gift. It was an avenue for opening new opportunities, he said

Dispelling the fears that AI could replace humans, he said it could only help them perform better and discharge their duties in a perfect manner., The laptops presented to them were essential for research and innovation and students should not be content with their classroom education alone in the three or four year of their study.

If man had been satisfied with the invention of the wheel and also the discovery of fire, technology would not have developed to the present level in which space research was progressing and that was why society should harness AI for its growth and development, he said.

Encouraging skill development, scientific outlook and rationalism alone would lead to innovations and inventions and the fund expended on the laptop scheme for students was an investment on the future education of the coming generations and not an expenditure, he said.

Advising the students to use the laptops for the development of their chosen careers rather than for playing video games and movies, he said that everything in the world had both good and bad sides and success would to those who only take the good side.

The laptops had been given to them to fight the world and come up with success without bothering about other personal things like family as they were being taken care of by the State government that had devised a plethora of schemes and implemented them effectively, he said.

For the students needed to strive harder to develop the State further though it was being described as a ‘superstar state’ by the world media now, he said. But it had to grow more and that was in the hands of the future generations, he said.