The human brain, despite its complexity, has significantly less storage capacity than even a basic smartphone.

AI will eclipse human abilities not only in memory and processing power but also in performing critical thinking tasks.

Nevertheless, the uniqueness of human experiences, both individual and collective, and the depth of our creativity remains unparalleled. While the swift advancement of superintelligent AI does pose existential risks, I remain hopeful that we can incentivize this technology to enhance and complement our lives.

It could unlock greater creativity, provide more opportunities, and free up time for exploration— of our world, ideas, and our inner resources.

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Humans augmented with AI vs Humans without AI vs AI

It will be interesting.

> The human brain, despite its complexity, has significantly less storage capacity than even a basic smartphone.

Although I agree with the posts conclusion, it’s practically impossible to measure this.

How could one design an experiment to measure the total storage capacity of the human brain?

Every word, expression, love, lesson, movement, dream, memory and fear… and to process it all at times in an instant, and at times to discover or create, is still the hallmark of the universe

That's probably not quite true. The human brain's storage capacity is probably measurable in petabytes. But the way our brain's store and retrieve information is probably far less efficient. So it might be more accurate to say that AI models could surpass human intelligence with less storage capacity than the human brain, because of advantages in stable storage and recall.

That was exactly Geoffrey Hinton's recent argument in a couple of interviews he gave. He also mentioned that the back-propagation algorithm is probably a better learning algorithm than the one the human brain uses. That is scary.

Wake me up when the AI is able to produce something brand new that isn't an amalgamation of already existing words and art. Wake me up when AI has imagination.

I think AI will not meet expectations. Humans need wisdom much more than knowledge right now

Jui Jutsi damages the brain way less than boxing!!! Few understand this...