I remember my early days in the work force, before the internet. We actually had books in the office. Shelves of them. Government regulation binders. University textbooks with lots of detailed stuff. Periodicals. If you needed an answer, you flipped pages.
And if the books didn’t have it, you asked somebody. And most offices had one or two of them...a guy or gal who was full of information (a lot of it was useless but some of it was VERY valuable) and they could access it and tell you what they knew. Then the internet and google came along and replaced those people that used to come in so handy. So google kind of replaced your books and was easier to work with than your office know-it-all. And now the page has turned again.
AI has arrived. But this time it doesn’t tell you what you need to know. It DOES what you need to DO. It drafts the email, writes the document, creates a website, takes notes at meetings, builds spreadsheets...and so much more. It’s replacing your intelligence with its own. And its better, stronger, faster. It means, IMO, that intelligence in humans is becoming less valuable.