Footnote on AI - from the book Changing World Order

From last week, I started reading this book by Ray Dalio, "The Changing World Order". While reading through it within the first chapter, there is a footnote that goes like:

"At this time, humanity is evolving its ways of thinking and increasing productivity in more dramatic ways than ever before, even more dramatically than the discovery and usage of the scientific method. We're doing this through the development of the artificial intelligence which is an alternative way of thinking via an alternative brain that can make discoveries and process them into instructions of what should be done.

Humanity is essentially creating an alternative species that has enormous capacity to see past patterns and process many different ideas very quickly, has little or no common sense, has trouble understanding the logic behind relationships, and doesn't have emotions. The species is simultaneously smart and stupid, helpful and dangerous. It offers great potential and needs to be well controlled. And not blindly followed."

Indeed, this is a point in time where things are changing, and things are changing pretty fast.

A lot of work that we used to think that only humans can do, now machines are able to do and think like humans or atleast are very close to them. We're still far away from saying they're as smart as us or as intelligent enough to think in abstracts and find abstract solutions of common and general problems.

That's why Ray also said there is little or no common sense, but one thing that they are good at is following instructions - if given clearly.

That gives us a thought. If what we do, how we earn money, how we find meaning in our lives is something which is very instructions-and-process driven, then I think machines are going to do it better than us.