AI Is Great for People Who Think

AI is an awesome product for people who think. If you are the type who walks in the morning around the neighborhood and ponders on things, AI is great. If you sit on a couch all day and doomscroll, it won’t help you much.

You have to have good ideas in your head. You have to fill your brain with them. Ideas come from knowing things. Better ideas come from knowing multiple domains.

Here is one of many hypotheses why biology isn’t advancing as fast as we hoped: there aren’t that many truly smart people who have multi-domain expertise. New ideas often come from other domains. That gap is real, and it matters.

It matters because playing with AI every day shows me exactly what I lack. I don’t think fast enough. I don’t think hard enough. I don’t have enough ideas to fully utilize it. I can’t always gather what AI gives me and make sense of it.

So far, AI has made gathering information and learning about anything super fast and cheap. But it’s still up to humans to process all that and make something new.

I am skeptical that AI will ever reach that point.

I will be glad to be wrong.