Shark Tank India judge and Shadi.com founder Anupam Mittal has joined the discussion on whether AI could replace humans. He highlights that despite AI’s fast advancements, it still falls short of the human brain’s complexity, efficiency and real-time decision-making.
In a widely shared LinkedIn post titled “Is AI about to replace humans?”, Anupam Mittal gave a straightforward response: “Not anytime soon.” He stressed that today’s AI is still far from matching human reasoning, creativity and decision-making abilities.
Anupam Mittal says that copying even one human brain with today’s AI would need a huge data centre the size of a football field running nonstop. By comparison, the human brain does the same work using just 20 watts of power.
Mittal explains that copying the brain’s full working, including neurons, connections and chemical signals, would need an enormous computer. In theory, a machine as big as the Earth would be required to match a human brain.
According to Mittal, AI is excellent at automation, repetition, and pattern recognition at scale. However, these abilities cannot replace qualities like creativity, context, judgment and resilience, which emerge from millions of years of human evolution.
Mittal highlighted that human creativity, judgment, and sense of taste come from the brain’s ability to learn continuously, understand many things at once and make sense of the world. AI cannot copy this using bigger models or more computers.
“The real miracle of the brain isn’t intelligence,” says Mittal. He points out that the brain fits immense complexity inside the skull, runs on sugar and oxygen, and dissipates less heat than a dim light bulb—something AI cannot match.
Anupam Mittal believes humans are not losing their edge anytime soon. He says AI is useful for support and assistance, but it cannot think like humans or replace human creativity, judgment and decision-making in the near future.
