I.--A.I. or otherwise

We cannot agree on whether we can actually be intelligent ourselves.

How can we learn to communicate with aliens if we can't even have a pleasant conversation with a dolphin?

Who can we learn to see other points of view when we can't even hear a wake-up call?

How can we even hear a wake-up call when the hotel we choose has no phones?

Artificial ignorance, always on the horizon, lures us into thinking we can make it intelligent, but the joke's on us.