In Asian cultures, especially places like India and China, if you told somebody that you were hardly working, they would look at you with disrespect. In these countries, as well as many others, people pride themselves on working hard to make a living. The harder you work, the more you are held in honor.
Bullshit.
This type of perception has kept so many amazing people doing busy work instead of meaningful work.
Think about it. How did people feel when calculators first came to mass market? Were there purists who held the notion that we must continue to calculate things the hard way with pen and paper as opposed to the new calculator technology? You bet there were.
These are the people who got left behind, became irrelevant and no one remembers them.
The pragmatist smart folks knew that using the calculator was just a shortcut they could take to accomplish amazingly Big things and leave the rudimentary calculations to the calculator. Smart work and not hard work.
Same thing is going to happen with artificial intelligence. There will be people who will shun the technology and will insist that we use human intelligence for what artificial intelligence can do. Just a false ideology without any real merit behind it.
The smart folks will take advantage of artificial intelligence and all of its flavors as it becomes available to catapult their potential to the next level.
It’s too bad that many intelligent get left behind because they focus on working hard instead of meaningful impact. That has always happened when any new technology comes to market and will definitely happen with this new phase as well.