AI thinking is to human thought what planes are to bird flight
js_craft_hq · x · 2026-10-26
jscrafthq shares an analogy picked up from a podcast: AI "thinking" is to human thinking what an airplane's flight is to a bird's flight — including both the advantages and limitations. Planes don't fly the way birds do, yet they achieve flight; AI reasoning may not replicate human cognitive mechanisms but still arrives at the results. The author doesn't recall the exact source.
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