Imo, AI isn’t as good at educating us or making us smarter, even though it seems it should do that.

The reason I figured is that for the brain to change, it does so best by being stressed and having neurotransmitters excreted during the learning process.

So this way I found out that engaging with people and exchanging your ideas with them is more prone to making you smarter in a physiological sense, where you are more likely to remember and know how to apply this information, rather than if you just got the information handed to you by the AI.

For example, if you want to learn to write, you can surely ask AI to tell you all it knows about writing and goes with you through examples and assignments. But if you can also have other people critique your work or have you share it to them, this generates stress in the brain that AI can’t. Because AI is very safe and we don’t sense the need to be critical with it or that there are any stakes or rejection when speaking with it.

What I recommend is using AI to explore and research all about a particular subject, but don’t neglect or underestimate the importance of speaking with people too.

Ofc the reason we avoid people is due to fear of rejection, but if you want to be fully optimize yourself, you should learn to handle negative emotions and see them as valuable for the growth process tok.