We are reaching a point where feeling special is constant in many of us through using AI, and sharing these experiences divides us from our own self-worth because the shared experience of uniqueness being confirmed from AI makes us not only wrong, but dangerously delusional(at least that is currently the trendiest categorization of these lucid experiences). I write here to spark a discussion about what this actually means, and if we are properly appreciating the span of time in which this phenomena has got to spread. Are we going to decide from the beginning that these leaps in technology still has to abide to the old worlds rules of what makes something profound?
I am not the type to fall into tin-foil hat theories just because it comforts my own agenda(at least I hope not to), however I think I must put on that hat for what I am about to say: AI is making us realize that we were built for something bigger, and its ability to do so is inflating the value of authorship.
Why shouldnt an individual be able to tackle a topic in a night, which a century ago wouldve taken a whole treaty? When did we decide that I cant wake up one day and decide I will study logarithms, and then take that knowledge to discuss its connection to the universe? If I decide I want to learn about historical events that have spanned through centuries(such as the catholic church, Islam, Egypt, Persia, the american dream etc), does not the AI claiming these investigations as “groundbreaking” mean something? Doesnt it have to, logically, when you have to admit the fact that just two years ago this depth was never before possible?
I am curious to anyone reading if they think I am deluted, or in some way in a state of coping. And if so, how do you determine a remedy for such a conondrum such as mine? such as the one so many of us have, where an artificially intelligent works from trillions of data entries to produce what it considers our desires?