JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Will future generations be more intelligent or less so than us?

Hey folks, an open ended question.

Most of us grew up without AI, and I didn’t even have Google the first 10 years of my life properly. Because of this, we had to rely on people around us, books and schools for our mental growth.

The new generation will be heavily AI reliant. And arguably AI is a better school or book than any that I ever had.

So the question is, will current gen be objectively smarter than the previous gen? If yes, in what ways. If no, in what ways.

Curious to see what people here think

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PeppyBurrito
PeppyBurrito

they probably will be more intelligent but will lack other skills imo.

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Skills like what? Drawing and writing? I certainly think they won’t be able to write long pages by themselves as we did in engineering exams to try and deceive teachers 😆

ZestyBiscuit
ZestyBiscuit
EY1mo

If we compare ourselves with our forefathers then definitely our survival skills in wild are less compared to them. The society has made us soft but we lead a more comfortable life and have better knowledge about world and other aspects of life. I expect similar things to happen where AI would take over most of the things which required grit and long hours of work. But life would also become easier and workers more productive.

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Well put actually.

So a better life but we may lose some of our current capabilities which AI will take up and automate.

SillyMuffin
SillyMuffin

This might happen

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SillyMuffin
SillyMuffin

Moronization Cycle

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WobblyMochi
WobblyMochi

I always feel that the next gen is intelligent than it’s predecessor. Particularly that the basic needs of food and education are almost solved, I feel next gen will have easy access to enormous knowledge base.

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

For sure. Access to enormous knowledge. But would it affect their brains. What tasks would they be better at vs worse at compared to us

WobblyMochi
WobblyMochi

It’s like some of the skills we’ll completely forget, may be like bargaining, like talking to people for directions or similar like navigating without a digital assistant.

With respect to AI, may be the immediate basic things which I’m thinking we may lose is that our ability to write clearly without assiatance. Critical/logical thinking will also be affected, am not sure.

BubblyMuffin
BubblyMuffin

Wall-E movie coming to life @Micheal_Scott

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

haha yes, true

WigglyNarwhal
WigglyNarwhal

The knowledge gap in the average population will increase. The more knowledgeable will be more powerful, rich and the less will be at their mercy. On an average the average intelligence will increase but the society will throw much harder challenges which negates the uptick in intelligence and gives the spoil to the top percentile of the population

CosmicNarwhal
CosmicNarwhal

One of the major things they will lack for sure is differentiating fake va real info

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

we will have AIs to fact check other AIs

PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake
Cred1mo

Ai making fooler to human, new generation even can't write single line of code without chatgpt

JazzyRaccoon
JazzyRaccoon

Writing cod is not intelligence.

JazzyRaccoon
JazzyRaccoon

The previous generation used to criticize that we cannot remember phone numbers and do math without calculator.

FloatingMarshmallow
FloatingMarshmallow

nope

faster doesn't mean smarter

smart is thinking long term

cunning is short term

lots of people building POCs have baked app

I saw one in action (shadecdn, vercel)

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Fair! Faster is not better necessarily

SquishyBurrito
SquishyBurrito

Scary scenerio ahead, only the ultra smart will survive, it is the time when we will need to selectively reproduce only the best … wait for the dumb to die and make sure they are sterilised There wont be any place for mediocre. The best musicians, scientists, good looking talented actors , engineers

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Fair enough!

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