In the earliest days of human history, there were only two forces worth praying to. Our ancestors and nature. Our ancestors because they carried the knowledge that kept the tribe alive; where to find food, how to heal wounds, how to read the land and animal migration as well as the seasons. Nature, on the other hand, because it held absolute power. It either nourished us, or ended us without warning. Survival depended on revering both. So people honoured the wisdom of those who came before them, and feared what could easily erase their very existence. To preserve what we learned, we began to record knowledge. We painted on cave walls, displaying hunting methods, identifying areas where animals grazed, reading the weather and telling intricate stories. When writing evolved on stone tablets and paper, knowledge could finally travel beyond time and memory. Languages formed, stories turned into scriptures, and entire ways of life were passed down across generations. Survival no longer depended only on what one person could remember. It depended on what a civilisation could store. Eventually, the scientific method changed knowledge from inherited belief, into something tested, measured and refined. Humans learned to document not just what worked, but why it worked. Formulas, experiments and repeatable methods slowly uncovered the rules that governed nature and God’s inner workings. Knowledge became cumulative. Each generation could begin where the previous one had stopped, stepping on the shoulders of giants. Then came the digital revolution and the information age. Words, numbers, images and sounds were compressed into ones and zeros, stored at a scale no library could ever match. Today, we’ve built machines that could read, process and utilise this knowledge. Artificial intelligence could absorb information so vast that this single entity could resemble an engineer, a doctor and a musician all at once. Not through the significant experience a typical human garners, but via access to almost everything humanity had ever recorded. We survived because we learned, we stored and we shared knowledge. Now we are passing that ability to machines. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will become powerful. It already is. The real question is, what happens when intelligence itself is no longer uniquely… human? We rarely concern ourselves with what an ant is doing. Not because ants are useless, but because their world barely shapes ours. Will artifical intelligence look at us the same way one day? Not as makers, not as masters, not as enemies, but simply as something that… came before? I do not know. What I know is that one truth has always followed us through every era. Those who possess the knowledge and technology will ultimately be the ones who shape the future. submitted by /u/sapheonyx
Originally posted by u/sapheonyx on r/ArtificialInteligence