Another ai article, another group of self-identified smart people claiming they are not as smart as a statistical engine. "Are most ideas not original?" Sure. "Was every idea discovered first at one time or another?" Sure. Maybe what's going on is you are not as smart as you think you are and intelligence is less proprietary than you believe. Nobody owns ideas. What matters is if you know which ones to use. There is a distinction between knowledge and intelligence and between epistemic effectiveness and interpolation about the mean of the corpus. If AI wows you likely that's because you are actually more average than you believe. I have used AI a lot. Never once do I think this tool out thought me. Because it doesn't think at least in a human way at all. Being able to retrieve some information or connect some dots is less meaningful than knowing what matters. AI needs vast working memory because it lacks endogenous constraint driven judgement. Whereas humans historically lacking judgment died and now more often they just make fools of themselves online. Naturally our brains are more epistemically effective for solving problems that concern humans than something that approximates what we have though in mean and written down.