According to Ethan Mollick, reporting on the results of a recent study he was involved in at Proctor & Gamble led by Harvard Business School, AI makes a huge difference in groupwork.
In the natural sciences, automation has been dramatically increasing the productivity of an individual since the late 90s, but with AI (and shortly AI agents), we have now reached the level of the Tony Starks or Reed Richards from the comics.
It's both amazing and frightening to think that a lab could be not only functional but competitive with a single human working with several AIs, each trained with a different specialty. Of course, human creativity would be reduced, but then one could envision clusters of such labs cooperating to increase human understanding exponentially.
... at which we reach the point where humans are nodes in a system of AI ganglion leading to a planetary cybernetic mind...
In the natural sciences, automation has been dramatically increasing the productivity of an individual since the late 90s, but with AI (and shortly AI agents), we have now reached the level of the Tony Starks or Reed Richards from the comics.
It's both amazing and frightening to think that a lab could be not only functional but competitive with a single human working with several AIs, each trained with a different specialty. Of course, human creativity would be reduced, but then one could envision clusters of such labs cooperating to increase human understanding exponentially.
... at which we reach the point where humans are nodes in a system of AI ganglion leading to a planetary cybernetic mind...