AI to replace humans soon? Shark Tank judge Anupam Mittal says 'to replicate what your brain does...'

Shark Tank India judge and Shadi.com founder Anupam Mittal has waded into the debate whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace human beings or not. In a viral post, he broke down why today’s AI, despite its hype, can’t touch the human brain’s efficiency or depth, using simple analogies to highlight the massive technical chasm. In a widely shared social media post titled “Is AI about to replace humans?”, the entrepreneur argued that AI is still far away from replacing the complexities of the human brain. Anupam Mittal had a short answer to whether AI will replace humans or not: "Not anytime soon." In an extensive post shared on professional networking platform LinkedIn, Mittal pointed out that mimicking one human brain with current AI would demand a football-field-sized data center running non-stop.

'Would need a football sized data center'

The Shadi.Com founder went on to explain that to match a single human brain using today’s AI approaches, one would need a football-field-sized data center running at full capacity—just to mimic how one person sees, thinks, learns, and decides in real time. That’s to handle basics like seeing, thinking, learning and deciding in real time. Yet your brain pulls off the same feats on just 20 watts of power, roughly what a dim LED bulb uses. Scale up to the brain’s full biological magic, with neurons, synapses, chemical signals and adaptive plasticity, and you’d theoretically need a computer the size of planet Earth. This gap, he argued, gets overlooked in the rush to crown AI as humanity’s successor.

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“That’s the gap people forget,” he wrote. Anupam Mittal acknowledged that AI excels at tasks such as automation, repetition, and large-scale pattern extraction, but believes that qualities like creativity, judgment, context, resilience, and taste cannot be reduced to measurable parameters.


“These have evolved over millions of years and are emergent properties of a system that learns continuously, reasons across domains, and compresses reality with extreme efficiency,” he said.

According to Anupam Mittal, replacing the human creativity would require a fundamental shift in how intelligence is computed, not just bigger models and more GPUs. Until then, he believes AI will remain a powerful tool but not a substitute for human ingenuity.

“The real miracle of the brain isn’t intelligence,” he concluded. “It’s all the complexity that fits inside your skull, runs on sugar and oxygen, and dissipates less heat than a light bulb. That’s the human flex AI can’t replicate.”

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Take a look at Anupam Mittal's post here

‘Is AI about to replace humans?’ Short answer: Not anytime soon

To match a single human brain using today’s AI approaches, you’d need something close to a football-field-sized data centre running flat out - just to mimic how one person sees, thinks, learns, and decides in real time. All that to replicate what your brain does on 20 watts.

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Until we see a fundamental shift in how intelligence is computed - not just bigger models and more GPUs - replacing human creativity isn’t a near-term threat. The real miracle of the brain isn’t intelligence. It’s all the complexity that fits inside your skull, runs on sugar and oxygen, and dissipates less heat than a light bulb. That’s the human flex AI can’t replicate.