We must pay the price. When we outsource things to AI.

People already outsource their thinking to AI. And this is the method that will have its price. Of course, the AI needs more and more electricity. But then. We must understand the price. That we must pay in those cases is a much deeper thing. Than just some electric bill. If we outsource things like making art for the AI. We can publish nice images. But we are not the thing that makes those images. 

If we always use AI for writing, we won’t be the ones who make the work. If the AI does the work. The effect on us is the same as if Rembrandt made the work. The painting would be nice. It seems nice on the wall. But the thing is that the work is not done by us. We would not learn to paint. The painting didn’t teach us anything. And if we use AI to make images. We will never get the skills to make paintings. In the same way.  AI can generate things like poems. That means we can theoretically lose our skills to make paintings and texts. 

Outsourcing thinking to robots and AI is an easy choice. AI makes things easier. Our customers must not wait for the data. This makes our services more effective. But the problem is that we will give our ability to think to a machine. We can make complicated formulas. And reports by using the AI. This means we can make those things without reading skills. Or, in this case, we must say that the AI does all the work.

The situation is similar to a situation. There, we outsource those jobs to workers, and then, without even looking at those reports, resend them to our boss. This means that we outsource that work to henchmen. Even a baby can make these kinds of things. And that is a dangerous thing. The AI is an effective tool. When it must collect, process, and sort information. When AI can use existing mathematical formulas. And it gets all the information in the form. That it can change. To a computing process. It’s the tool that beats everything. 

If we want to make our lives too easy, we pay a price. About that thing. What if we will never rise from our beds? What if we use robots that offer us the ability to use exoskeletons for everyday things? What if we spend all our lives in a tank? The robot butlers will serve us. And provide. A possibility. To interact with our environment. The price that we will pay is this. We will be helpless without those robots. If those robots lose their connections. We will not have anything that repairs our tank. There we lay, eat, and use those robots. 

But if the AI must make a new formula. Or make something completely new, it can turn ineffective. The AI cannot think in abstractions. It can collect, compare, and connect existing information. But it lacks complete abstraction. So, the AI is here and now. And that means AI doesn’t have imagination. The AI is in trouble if it must create something completely new. Without the right sensors. And without the right dataset, the AI cannot make anything. 

The AI can make music that pleases a certain type of human if it can compare sounds. It is created with the EEG. Of humans. The AI sees. From those curves. If the sound effect or series of sound effects pleases the person. This means that the AI could make. A perfect series of sounds. But those sounds will not necessarily mean anything. So, the nonsense series of sounds can please humans, but they might not necessarily involve any useful information. The AI can make many things. And if we want to follow orders that the AI gives, that is our choice. 

The AI can be a tool that makes things effective. But it has a price. The price is that our ability to think turns superficial. When AI makes reports for us, we face a situation where this is a job that any 10-year-old human can do. Any human can read those things from the papers. We can put any ten-year-old kid to read books about quantum technology. But that person might not understand a thing about those things. People can repeat words without understanding what they mean. 

We can outsource things like chess games to AI. The AI can calculate moves very effectively. Especially if the chess computer or chess program is connected with it. The system can show its moves to us. And then we must just repeat those moves. So, who is the best chess player? The answer is that we could also make that thing under the command of Garry Gasparov. In that case, Gasparov tells us how to move those buttons. So, we could say that the winner of the game will be Gasparov or AI. The robot hand can always make the same things. That regular person does in that game. 

https://bigthink.com/philosophy/the-hidden-cost-of-letting-ai-make-your-life-easier/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-executive-thinking-survey