Re:What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the powe...
by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @07:51PM
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Given that a hammer is a primordial tool, a first tool, you'd think that that switch would be the most striking at that moment. We went from having no tool at all to a tool.
I think you're mixing definitions of things. We don't lose any capacity at all, we just lose the need for a skill in our day to day life. We haven't evolved away from the ability to create fire, we just don't need that knowledge at this moment. I don't know how to hunt a gazelle, but the hunter didn't know how to drive.
Both "evolution" and "capacity" seem to be incorrect words to describe this phenomena.
As soon as you have an 'advanced' tool that can automate things or do things for you better/faster/with less efforts, you don't need to learn that skill anymore, why would you ?
It doesn't mean the capacity is lost forever and the skill can't be learned anymore, but it's gonna be less and less frequent at the population level.
Nowadays, how many people can:
- make fire without a match or a lighter ?
- add large numbers or do math operations without a calculator ?
- reach a destination without a gps ?
- learn history dates, lists of cities / states / etc...
In the end, it's a bit similar to how species evolve. When a function isn't needed anymore, the organism tends to evolve without it.