We tricked literal rock into thinking, and so we are doomed.

In 2012 I sat in an Artificial Intelligence class during my second university year. I don't remember much of it. My impression is that it was decision trees, expert systems, and some probabilistic models. I never thought any of it would change humanity within the next decade. It is late 2026 now, and I believe we are heading somewhere nobody has a map for, with no way back.

We took a rock, cooked it with carbon to get silicon, purified that until almost nothing else was left, grew it into a crystal, sliced it thin, etched patterns into it too small to see, gave it logic, and ran electricity through it. Now it answers back. It almost sounds like a joke, but it is a fair description of what happened.

For most of human history, I think craft is what gave people meaning. You spent years getting good at one thing. It cost you time and gave you a lot of experience, and being good at it became part of who you were.

I am pro AI. My company uses it almost every time as it runs AI agents 24/7. I mostly benefit from it. I'm saying that first because the rest sounds like a complaint. But if a machine can do in seconds what took you ten years to learn, what were the ten years for? I believe human intelligence becomes obsolete as something people value, and the crafts built on it lose their worth with it.

So what is our purpose in the future? I would like to know what the answer is. Right now, I think we're losing our purpose and meaning.