- Over the last decade and a half, the global community has witnessed breathtaking developments, innovations, inventions, growth, and mind-boggling advancements that may appear to be humanly impossible to fathom. Especially, the advent of information-technology-driven artificial intelligence has indeed become ubiquitous, making our day-to-day lives so easy to navigate on the back of technological brilliance driven by the large language models (LLMs). Yes, the way artificial intelligence has penetrated our daily existence speaks volumes about how critical invention will be embraced in literally every sphere. The moot point to ponder over here is what will happen to human intelligence in the coming years amid growing clamour for artificial intelligence (AI).
PC: Sage Design Group
- Let’s not forget that AI was itself an invention born out of the human mind. Running on just 20W power, the human brain can invent machines, write poems, solve mysteries of soul and space, and, unlike Alphabet’s Waymo cars, navigate streets when the traffic lights are out. It is Socrates, Kalidasa, Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Einstein, and all the other names we wish we’d listed here. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our brain created words and tools out of nothing – there were no precedents to imitate. Now, it has created AI, which can spit out pictures, music, videos and text, but only through imitation of human works. Yet, for at least the last three years, AI’s been sold as a replacement for human intelligence.
PC: OfficeChai
- Amazingly, it promises to save corporations billions of dollars by supplanting millions of workers. However, after investing hundreds of billions of dollars, and plans tending to many trillions, the big question is – can it? Because if it can’t, the so-called AI revolution is nothing but a bubble, which could pop any day. Notably, this fear has been around since late 2024, but 2025 saw AI captains themselves acknowledging it. OpenAI’s Sam Altman said – When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth. He should know, his company’s valuation rose from $157bn in Oct 2024 to $500bn a year later, despite losing $11.5bn in the third quarter of 2025. Google’s Sundar Pichai has talked about some irrationality behind the boom. Indeed.
PC: Orient Software
- And, Jeff Bezos has mentioned an industrial bubble. The fear is growing because AI advancements are slowing. In 2024, AI used up 1.5% of the world’s electricity. By 2030, OpenAI alone wants to have 250GW of computing power – as much as India’s electricity demand in 2024. Even after building this massive computing muscle, will AI be half as competent as the average human brain? There’s a growing consensus that it won’t. And that’s down to the nature of its LLMs that are good at guessing the next thing we would say, but little else. They simply don’t have a mental model of the world, which is essential for performing real-world tasks. Besides, their hallucinations and unreliability are dealbreakers. Human intelligence will prevail, as has been the case for ages.
