It’s 2028, ‘AI is not a tool, it’s a shadow of the mind’

I think at the end of it all, AI will change to be something completely different than what it is now…<br><br>AI has this awkward phase currently where it still requires a lot of input and a clear description of what it’s trying to do but I think the next step is going to be a cognitive shift, a true inner working of the mind.<br><br>If we can do it, I don’t know, but ‘should we’ is another question.<br><br>When I see what current AI can do and the advancements being made at the moment, I can’t help but to think that the next step is a cognitive symbiosis between our minds and the AI.<br><br>It sounds crazy, but there’s research happening on how to ‘read’ brain waves and there’s some that are already on the cusp of similar things. That’s the next step I think. It’s to be able to ‘think’ commands and have the AI respond appropriately.<br><br>It’s not far fetched, a lot of research is happening and some it’s already being made possible with the likes of Elon and Neuralink.<br><br>The next question is the obvious, ‘what’s the potential danger in this’.<br><br>And there’s some part of me that thinks that the current ‘AI’ that we have at the moment is going to be looked back at as a really innocent time in history. Where people started to say ‘hang on a minute, what exactly is happening here, this doesn’t feel right.’<br><br>Like when we were kids and we would make fun of each other, getting really close and then slapping each other, and then we’d wonder, ‘fuck, what just happened there?’.<br><br>I think there’s a really ignored part of AI that no one is questioning and that is the cognitive shift that AI is doing to us. What is it doing to people and the way that we think? What’s it doing to our brains and our psyche? What’s happening to our minds in this process?<br><br>I think there’s a lot that we’re not questioning and that’s going to be a problem. I think we need to have a bigger conversation around this.<br><br>I think there’s a whole new era that’s going to come very soon, an era of the mind and a whole new level of awareness.<br><br>But it’s 2028 right now and it’s not that far away. <br><br>If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them.