Is AI making us smarter, or just making us 'intellectually lazy'?
As we lean on AI to draft our emails, code our apps, and even form our opinions, are we becoming a more 'augmented' and efficient species? Or are we losing the very 'intellectual grit' that defines human expertise?
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AI is making us smarter, take a 20 USD subscription and you can generate any language code. Learn theoretical tech and implement practically. What more is justified. Claude competition 4 of top 5 winners are non coders. Leave coding, for every person learning has become extremely easier and faster. Even a free source model does a great job teaching us in a structured manner. Now the problem is human who is not able to adapt properly, its up to human if he is going to be smarter or just lazy and let all the work done by AI.
I agree that people are becoming smarter but that is only less no of audience. Most people stopped thinking critically and becoming intellectually lazy. I asked a programmer to write a prime number program and he was not able to even think of pseudo code. I asked an engineer who joined recently to invert binary tree, was not able to think what to do or how to approach, the answer is AI will do it. What more do you need to say most humans are becoming dumb!
Atleast I've become more smarter using Gen AI. Learning new tech, finance, digital marketing and becoming solo entrepreneur. I would vote towards adaption of more usage in AI.
The laziest of the generation in making by AI. Everyone around me using AI for simple things like numerical addition and multiplication as well which is crazy bad. I could multiply higher numbers because of practice and my brain is faster than many around me now. I love AI but people are idiots.
AI is making us smarter by acting as a powerful cognitive force multiplier. By letting it handle "mental busywork" like basic coding or drafting emails, we gain more time for high-level strategy and creativity. This isn't laziness; it’s a knowledge shortcut that lets us focus on the hard parts of any project. Just like calculators didn't destroy math but enabled bigger engineering feats, AI provides a sophisticated baseline for human innovation. It is like having a super-smart assistant that handles the small stuff so we can tackle much more complex problems than we ever could alone. We aren't losing our grit; we are becoming an augmented species that bridges the gap between raw ideas and polished execution.