> <i>I am proposing that rather than act like an opinionated friend, AI would produce a map of the landscape of human knowledge and opinions for you to navigate, one you can use to get somewhere a bit better.</i><p>I think this point can be generalized to a lot of products in tech: The original potential of computers was to be able to provide better <i>maps</i> - meaning, giving people supercharged abilities to store and organize information.<p>What we got instead are <i>navigation systems</i>: You're not supposed to organize information at all, instead, you're supposed to tell some software system what you want and it will magically bring you there - no need to understand any greater structures.<p>Google made that quite explicit when they introduced GMail and "disrupted" the way we do email: Before, people where curating their mailboxes with subfolders, etc. Gmail was the promise that this wouldn't be necessary anymore: You can just dump everything onto a big pile and use the search if you need something.<p>AI seems like an extreme version of that.<p>Maybe we should go back and produce more maps again.