RE: The Boom of AI: Making Humans Smarter or Slowly Dumber?

This is a good post! In the past, hardly anyone had the time to think because they were busy 24/7 just trying to survive. Then machines did a lot of the heavy lifting and people were free to go to school and learn and think.

Now the machines can think. But I think that will free us to think at the next level up. We can still learn new things and integrate parts into wholes, like always. Like in programming, in the 70s it was done in assembly language. Then compilers happened and people learned to code in high level languages. Now AI can do some/most of the programming so we can level up to designing the system that the programming implements.

I think AI will give us more time. Time to understand human nature. We're tribal because we lived in tribes of 150 people for many many thousands of years. We had to think like the tribe or else be banished. That meant death; people need to be in a tribe. We're still tribal and we really don't need to be. We can be more independent but we can also expand our definition of the tribe. Now the tribe is all of the humans, regardless of where they live, what color their skin is, what religion they believe or what their politics are.

This whole thing could work out well. I choose to be positive. :)

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