alt Hacker NewsI think AI will turn out to be quite different from those earlier advances in tooling, in that AI replaces thought itself. So next time it probably won’t be a human physicist that does the intellectually challenging work of constructing quantum mechanics from measurements of individual quanta. It will most likely be an AI.
AI doesn't replace thought; it replaces cognitive labor
Just like physical tools don't replace labor but divide it into what's replaceable by tools and what's not.