Dr. John Mohan Razu
Human brain is such a vital part that run on just 20W, but can invent huge machines, once upon a time thought impossible; intrude into those that many believed as fiction; write poems, essays and solve mysteries; enter into space and articulate about soul and consciousness; There have been some gifted and excelled others with deep innovative minds and creative skills across the fields and disciples such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vince, Thiruvalluvar, Newton, Spinoza, Tolstoy, Einstein, Marx, Kalidas, Epicurus, and some more names we wish to add on.
Hundreds and thousands of years ago, the brain of human beings invented words and tools out of nothing invisible to the brains—object or material to imitate. Human brain does not satisfy with whatever invented, but move to higher levels that we have hardly thought about. One such epoch-breaking and mind-blowing invention is certainly Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has touched the human brain and some say it might even cross the humans’ ability and shall take us further—beyond which we have hardly thought of.
AI can perform all that we do and there are many who believe that AI is almost a replacement of human intelligence. For the last three years AI has pervaded almost everything that we can imagine. Those who dominate in AI in its research and applications predicted that AI would displace millions of labourers. This is why those big corporations and wealthy nations are investing on AI. A big question continues to loom: what happens, if it bursts. By 2025, AI embarked by crushing all kinds of assumptions and predictions, establishing its dominance.
For instance, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said: “When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth.” His company’s valuation rose from $157 bn in October 2024 to $500 bn a year later, despite $111.5 bn in the third quarter of 2025. Google’s Sundar Pichai has talked about “some irrationality” behind the boom. Jeff Beros has mentioned an “industrial bubble.”. There are some whose fear is gripped by its slow progress, while there are others that AI is advancing in such rapid speed as humans how is it possible to cope-up.
AI has generated a mix – fear as well as hope. If we go into brass-tacks in 2024, AI used up 1.5% of world’s electricity. By 2030, Open AI alone wants to have 250GW of computing -- as much as India’s electricity demand in the y. ear 2024. Even after building this massive computing muscle, will AI be half as competent as the average human brain? Even this had dominated the fear of many as they looked at AI having all potential to outwit the humans, which seemed to have gradually waned, but one should be cautious in decision-making processes.
On and off, we keep reading all kinds of viewpoints and opinionated narratives on AI. Can AI so easily be dismissed on the grounds that AI doesn’t have a mental model of the world, which is essential for performing real world tasks. At the same time, how much do we compute and what information arevbeing fed into can be cumulatively taken for processing, analysis, and interpreting. ‘Large language models (LLMs) seemed to have lost its hype. This is the reason why AI adoption at US firms declined between June and August 2025.
LLMs are good at guessing the next thing you want to say, but not having a mental model of the world, which is essential for performing real world tasks. Experts say that LLMs tends to be unreliable and hallucinating, and so, only one-third of the tasks are completed successfully. At the same time, it should be noted that the valuation is not based on utilitarian value, but by and large based on the hype. Experts say this is precisely the reason that AI adoption at US firms declined between June and August, 2025.
What is happening in the global market of AI that scepticism is growing at alarming levels, and so sheer push in the valuations and justifying the utilitarian value of AI firms – achieved through circular deals between chip makers and data centre operators and AI firms would eventually tough without achieving $2bn in revenues in 2030, which would be more than the earnings of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia combined in 2024. All indications show improbability and impossibility.
So, the bubble is being predicted that at some point probably must shrink or burst, causing widespread pain. Nonetheless, like previous bubble, it will leave behind goods such as data centres, new power plants, faster and more efficient chips, with AI industry that learns to innovate on tight budgets. The quest for the AI would not come to an end or burst, but only take a smarter course. The course that AI is going to take can be handled by the Real Intelligence (RI) of the cognitive skills of Homo sapiens.
Humans have journey together for centuries with collective agreements of their findings in terms of its applications. The thread that weaved through and journeyed along is built on the basic trust on which they believed and abided with. It is the trusteeship that propelled them to give-in to the problems and agreed on positives of the innovations. Whatever problems they encountered they found collective and mutual trust to iron-out the problems. They have come to consensus for the sake of preserving the humanity.
Take for instance, the invention of atom that has both positives and negative purposes. Some used it for the destructive ends and the implications of it is still being faced by the humanity. This is the crux. Homo sapiens live at the cutting-edge of the penultimate innovation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is regarded as the closest competitor of the human intelligence. In such context specificities humans have always employed common sense. There are initiatives and efforts going in that AI should not become another Frankenstein.
If AI is not controlled or be brought under human regulative ambit, it would take-over and starts dictating us. Those who look at the phenomenal growth and stupendous expansion of AI are of the view that AI is posing existential threat which by all means be brought under human control. Homo sapiens have the capacity and the will to intervene in such disastrous conditions. AI will continue to grow and should never be considered as it is going to burst. Year 2026 will further offer clarity the path AI is going to take. AI is another agent, and not a tool, and certainly is our agent. Homo sapiens are endowed with real intelligence, not artificial.
