AI didn't make intelligence faster, it changed its direction.

AI's fluency is real but its understanding is vapid.

We won't lose knowledge, we'll lose the capacity to make it.

For a long time, we treated intelligence as something that could be measured along a single line. We pushed along that same line with more memory, faster recall and better reasoning. Progress meant moving forward. The contention seemed that smarter was simply further.

AI changes, if not disrupts this assumption. What it offers doesn't feel like a continuation of human thought. It feels, at least to me, like a shift in how thought is produced. The output may look familiar to cognition, but the computational process........

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