The mind is a precious gift given from God which sets us apart from other creatures. With the ability of being conscious and the ability of thinking, humans have ever since tried to understand everything around them including the object which ignites the inquiries. The attempt to absorb and make sense of what is happening around us is a laborious process. For instance, to achieve the aha moment of a complex topic, a deep dive into different resources and countless hours of reading are absolutely required. Some obstacles might be shining at your face and prevent you from seeing the full picture (or seeing a broken one if you will), however with enough determination you can get rid of these. It has also been mentioned thousands of times in scattered articles here and there that the brain is like a muscle which needs to be in a regular training in order to function well. Yes, building new connections among neurons is painful and unpleasing yet they fades away once you understand.
Our collective mind has always been starving for knowledge. Intellectual property that gives it an advantage over almost all other species. Gradually humans have been demystifying the secrets of the universe theoretically and experimentally from the triviality of the pythagorean theorem to having our first baby steps on the lonely godly satellite of our planet. A long journey and the main protagonist in it was a small object which tries to fill in its intrinsic desire to know, question and seek answers. This all might saturate one day. The desire to know might be decreasing and we would take everything around us as if they were mere facts.
The high rise and rise of what is called the intelligence of the machine might threaten our throne as creatures which able to simply make sense of the surroundings. AI consumes much knowledge than not only an ordinary person or an expert but a group of experts in almost all fields of science and quasiscience and the surprising thing is that AI never say I do not know or stumbling when giving answers. People are struggling to write and structure their thoughts to put them in a readable and cohesive text, but the machine is no longer weak, no longer ignorant and it might be a matter of time until it gets its conscious, it might be a matter of time until it has it is own sentiments. All of that will eventually make us having full swing dependency on machines leading to gradual loss of our ability to reasonably think and will delegate this demanding task to the machine like everything else.
Consequences of all that? Well, we might all one day dying out. I’m kidding, but I am certain that we are constantly building our own self-eliminating tools. One of the consequences, though, which I think of great importance is the relation between teachers and students. Once students get extremely dependent on machines, teachers will turn out to be only “That’s what we found our ancestors doing” kind of teachers. In addition to the fear of asking questions, there will be another important factor which will make the transition of knowledge incomplete: Machines
With a 10x fast-forward world, everyone wants everything done ASAP (even me, I wanted to get my first ever medium article published quickly, that is why I used an AI model, kidding as well :) ). So why the heck do I bother to spend hours and hours trying to solve a problem if I can get it solved in a mere minutes (said the inner voice of many intellectually lazy students). I am not really sure where we are heading to, yes there have been many advancements that facilitate and shaped the way we live, but none of them were targeting the brain directly as this one.
Note: I did not use any AI models to write this article, so if any mistakes are present, be glad that you read an article from your fellow human as it will be rare in the future.