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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9878133" data-attributes="member: 6776166">Before AI was a commercial product, maybe in the early-mid 2010s, I read a rash of articles about how Americans don't store information in their heads anymore; they store how to get that information. To simplify; we don't remember "in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue" anymore, we remember "how to go to google and type 'when did columbus land in the americas'".At the time this was just considered to be a different, or even more efficient, way of organizing data. It's not terribly dissimilar than some computer systems. But that is literally the same thought process that we now attach judgment to sand say AI makes humans "dumber."We're not. We're just better allocating our storage space. I can't swap out my brain for a higher capacity hard disk, there's a hard limit to how much data it can contain, but if that all of that data was a filing system that pointed me to denser data formats like books, that's a more efficient use of processing power.Until the library burns down, of course, and then you've got no practical knowledge but lots of trivia about where books used to be.</blockquote>