08-12-2025, 02:02 PM
In my opinion, AI is simply nothing more than a means to organize existing human knowledge, much like an encyclopedia, wiki, or google search. I don't see it ever being able to do the all important human task of saying, "What if..." or "How about..."
The reason human technology is expanding so fast nowadays is due to people asking those questions.
"What if, instead of gasoline, we could power our vehicles with cow farts?!"
"How about we see what happens if we mount microwaves in a car, instead of just including a normal dash compartment which nobody ever uses!"
People propose and try the dumbest things -- many even to the point of blowing themselves up or dying in some insane manner -- but AI doesn't have the drive or imagination to do that. All it can do is take a look at what people have already did, study it, and then work on replicating it. It lacks that spark of creativity to push the boundaries to innovate or imagine anything new. You might ask AI, "How do I build a bridge over my creek that would be safe to drive a ten ton tractor and wagon over?" It'd be able to answer that, as it could look up existing designs and specifications and rules and such, and toss you a solution.
Ask it, "How do I build a rocket to travel to the next star in our solar system," and it'll simply say, "I'm sorry. That's impossible. Current technology doesn't allow for travel anywhere near the speed of light and the nearest star is several light years away from us." It doesn't try to push the boundaries by seeing if a balloon filled with muskrat farts might be able to do the job. Sure, most of us might laugh and talk about how crazy the nutcase is who's trying to do such a thing, but it might be their research in refining farts to produce rocket fuel that becomes the building block of science which eventually reshapes travel across the world and throughout space itself.
AI will never replace humanity just because it'll never have the spark to ask "Why?" itself. It might answer our questions, but in doing so, it'll only answer with the answers which we've already determined as a society. You could ask any AI today if slavery was acceptable and it'd immediately breakdown and cry and tell you how horrible even asking such a question is. Ask any AI that was trained and learned only on books and history from 200 years ago, and it'd scoff at you as if you were stupid. "Of course it's acceptable. Blah blah percent of people own slaves and slaves are an essential part of the economic and defense forces... To get rid of them would.... Don't be stupid.... Blah blah blah..."
AI is just a reflection of the information it was trained on. It's not an innovator, a dreamer, or an inventor. It's nothing more than another tool like Google Search -- it's just an overlay of makeup on that old pig, in an attempt to make it look prettier and new for the public to invest in.
The reason human technology is expanding so fast nowadays is due to people asking those questions.
"What if, instead of gasoline, we could power our vehicles with cow farts?!"
"How about we see what happens if we mount microwaves in a car, instead of just including a normal dash compartment which nobody ever uses!"
People propose and try the dumbest things -- many even to the point of blowing themselves up or dying in some insane manner -- but AI doesn't have the drive or imagination to do that. All it can do is take a look at what people have already did, study it, and then work on replicating it. It lacks that spark of creativity to push the boundaries to innovate or imagine anything new. You might ask AI, "How do I build a bridge over my creek that would be safe to drive a ten ton tractor and wagon over?" It'd be able to answer that, as it could look up existing designs and specifications and rules and such, and toss you a solution.
Ask it, "How do I build a rocket to travel to the next star in our solar system," and it'll simply say, "I'm sorry. That's impossible. Current technology doesn't allow for travel anywhere near the speed of light and the nearest star is several light years away from us." It doesn't try to push the boundaries by seeing if a balloon filled with muskrat farts might be able to do the job. Sure, most of us might laugh and talk about how crazy the nutcase is who's trying to do such a thing, but it might be their research in refining farts to produce rocket fuel that becomes the building block of science which eventually reshapes travel across the world and throughout space itself.
AI will never replace humanity just because it'll never have the spark to ask "Why?" itself. It might answer our questions, but in doing so, it'll only answer with the answers which we've already determined as a society. You could ask any AI today if slavery was acceptable and it'd immediately breakdown and cry and tell you how horrible even asking such a question is. Ask any AI that was trained and learned only on books and history from 200 years ago, and it'd scoff at you as if you were stupid. "Of course it's acceptable. Blah blah percent of people own slaves and slaves are an essential part of the economic and defense forces... To get rid of them would.... Don't be stupid.... Blah blah blah..."
AI is just a reflection of the information it was trained on. It's not an innovator, a dreamer, or an inventor. It's nothing more than another tool like Google Search -- it's just an overlay of makeup on that old pig, in an attempt to make it look prettier and new for the public to invest in.