SingularityNET CEO predicts AI strategic thinking will surpass humans within 2 years. The study also warns that over-reliance on ChatGPT for writing assistance may reduce brain engagement, weaken critical thinking, and lead to cognitive decline.
SingularityNET: AI strategic thinking ability to surpass humans within two years
Decentralized AI project SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel predicted during the CoinDesk Consensus Hong Kong conference that AI’s ability in high-level market thinking and strategic planning will surpass humans within 2 years.
Goertzel observed that, although AI systems like Quantium can currently accurately predict short-term Bitcoin fluctuations, in long-term and imaginative strategic thinking, humans still hold a unique advantage, able to use imagination to cross unknowns, but this advantage may only last a few years.
He also stated that decentralized AI projects are experiencing explosive growth, and blockchain technology will provide the necessary data sovereignty and security for the next generation of AI, indicating that the technology is gradually maturing and capable of application in complex real-world scenarios.
Are AI chatbots causing brain degeneration?
As AI demonstrates powerful capabilities, academia is also beginning to focus on its potential negative impacts on the human brain.
Time magazine cited research by Nataliya Kosmyna, a researcher at MIT Media Lab, exploring the specific effects of AI-assisted writing on neural and behavioral aspects.
The research team invited 54 participants to wear EEG devices and completed multiple writing tasks over four months in batches. The results confirmed that, compared to the “pure brain group” relying solely on their own thinking, participants using ChatGPT showed consistently lower performance in neural activity, language expression, and writing scores.
Data shows that over-reliance on generative AI tools significantly reduces brain engagement, which could, in the long run, weaken humans’ critical thinking abilities.
Outsourcing the brain to AI without necessary challenges may lead to superficial knowledge
iKala founder Cheng Shijia previously cited this study, stating that brain ability is “use it or lose it.” When humans actively think and solve problems, relevant neural connections are strengthened. If these cognitive tasks are outsourced to AI long-term, these connections will weaken, leading to gradual brain decline.
Cheng believes that the best way to effectively strengthen brain connectivity includes deliberate practice and maintaining necessary difficulty. The brain learns best and retains long-term memory when facing challenges beyond the comfort zone with a certain level of difficulty.
However, current AI provides convenience but also deprives humans of valuable opportunities to experience difficult learning paths, often causing knowledge to remain superficial and hard to deeply embed in the brain.
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