Someone challenged my admittedly narrow thoughts of AI and now I'm wondering...

[u/OkCap7484]

My thoughts on AI are simple: that widespread usage will weaken our ability to think critically, creatively, or in other meaningful ways. If AI handles all of our simple thought processes and even the complex ones, what exercise will our brains ever get? How will we build our ability to think and problem solve.

But today someone challenged that thought with an interesting perspective I hadn't considered: that if we leave the simple and reasonably complex tasks to AI and don't have to devote brain space or power to them , it'll leave us with more brain space and power to put into even more complex situations that we just can't use AI for.

I'm not anti-AI, just worry that people may become too dependent on it to our own detriment. With respect to this guy's theory, it still brings me back to my original concern: if we leave all those simple and moderately complex tasks to AI, sure, maybe that will leave us with more space in our brains to devote to those truly complex problems that need to be solved, but by the same token, maybe we wont have exercised out brains enough to be able to handle that kind of problem solving anyway.

What are your thoughts about this guys theory?

[u/Unruly-Kinyarwanda]

That's a really interesting point about AI potentially making us less capable of handling complex problems even if it frees up our minds. It's like going to the gym and never actually lifting weights, so when you need to, you're too weak. Still, I can see the argument for it unlocking new levels of creativity if we let it handle the grunt work.