No matter how advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) has developed, it still cannot match the abilities of human intelligence, and hopefully it never will.
And no matter how advanced and realistic robots or cyborgs are designed and developed, it can never be like a real human being.
Essentially, artificial intelligence and robots depend on electronic sensors and run on programs and are powered by electricity.
Without these, or when these malfunction, then there will be problems and things won’t work or won’t perform as expected.
No doubt, how those electronic sensors feed information to the programs is quite amazing and we even marvel at such technological advances.
But we may forget that we have IQ and also EQ, and we should be able to sense better, think better and judge better than the artificial intelligence and robots.
We may have taken all these gifts for granted and so we end up talking about the weather, places to eat and other mundane things.
That is what Jesus said in the gospel when He lamented that we know how to judge the signs of nature but we may not be that sensitive in judging what is right.
And our senses may have been dulled with it comes to feeling for others and with others.
We may even act like robots that are mechanical, rigid and cold.
The 1st reading reminds us to bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience.
That is what being human is about, to be filled with life and love, and to be living images of the God who created us.