The AI Era: When the 'Gap Between Human and Dog' Shrinks to the 'Gap Between Humans'
The article discusses how AI era is narrowing the cognitive gap between humans, using a hypothetical scoring system to illustrate the idea. Originally, the difference between individuals (e.g., a elementary student at 10 points vs. Einstein at 100) could be as vast as the difference between humans and dogs. However, with the advent of AI, which is estimated to contribute significantly to human capability (e.g., 80 points in the near term), even a less knowledgeable person equipped with AI can approach the performance of an expert.
While some argue that skilled AI users (e.g., prompt engineers) may widen the gap initially, the author believes this is temporary. As AI becomes more intelligent and user-friendly, the barrier to leveraging its full potential will lower. Eventually, AI could reach a point where it contributes so much (e.g., 1000 points) that individual human differences become negligible—like two fighters using rocket launchers, where their original martial arts skills matter little.
In the long run, AI will reduce relative disparities between people, even if absolute gaps persist, making expertise more accessible and diminishing the advantage of innate or highly trained human intelligence.
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