Human intelligence remains critical in AI era: Singapore minister

Addressing an audience of engineers, founders and operators at the conference in Singapore, the former ophthalmologist said there was still a role for rule-based expert systems that simulated human knowledge.

The human brain was often far more efficient than “the energy-gobbling systems which we have today”, he said.

However, that did not mean people should shy away from AI, Balakrishnan said, noting that it was now easier to access the technology.