Thoughts on A.I. Now That It's Captivating Everyone
Btw this is not anti-A.I. since there's no turning back.
This will be quick. As a writer and typically long-winded person, I respect readers’ time and attention. Lezz Gohh…
So, AI’s been with us for a while, everyone knows about it by now, and we all have our different takes on it. I want to share some of my opinions in the hopes it may compliment your own, or at least open up new directions of thought. AI’s here and the struggle is about to get more real. Don’t believe the hype was a saying from my day which applies today in full force. Unlike AI, we were naturally born to think, debate, compliment, counter, and sometimes even agree with each other. We’re human. And I’m proud to be just that (I’ve also never dreamt of electric sheep, so I feel all the more confident in my humanity).
I’ll present my concerns - in no particular order - in list form, again to respect your time and attention. I believe that:
AI will make us lazy at doing human work, at which point the work and competition will lay in prompting. But consider that AI can and will be trained to prompt, and will out-prompt us…at which point we will become obsolete. Not saying our obsolete-ness will happen - life has a way of disrupting logic lol - but that scenario follows logic.
While most are dreaming and scheming to out-AI their fellow man, a growing fringe group of creators sees the futility in this scheme (and how it’s wired in favor of AI companies and those who fund / create / use them) and is determined to do things the semi ‘old-fashioned way’, without prompting. Their work will be more personalized and of a higher quality, and a few will pay a premium for it because of that.
The Lazy Way (go ahead and criticize me for that phrase) of mass prompt-competition will go on for a few years - five at most I’d say - and end in despair as AI companies, who have the complete advantage, having given humanity a taste of their God-machines, will retract such services, allowing only the wealthy access to them. It will be at this point that businesses who invested ‘whole hog’ into AI will quickly die, being cut off from the umbilical cord. And it is at this point the society will feel this (planned) shockwave. The human-vs-robot sentiment will be high, of course fueled by big media. The only companies who will survive will be those with enough liquidity to afford the new, stratospheric, recurring subscriptions offered by AI companies and governments (as they’ll be sure to get in on the high-priced action), AND those with in-house, proprietary AI (and extremely high-paid AI innovation and maintenance staff - remember, AI is perpetually quickly updated). So, companies with a lot of money.
So I foresee two groups on either side of the AI reality (no longer the ‘AI question’): the few who can afford to renew subscriptions after the current period of AI-teasing is over, along with companies such as Google who have long had their own AI and simply need to lead or keep up with the best practices and innovations; OR those who see artificial intelligence for the society-disrupting trojan horse it is - mainly creators who, confident of their ultimate human superiority, refuse to compete with robots (that game being nothing more than shiny high-tech ponzi), intent on creating, promoting, and maintaining their (mostly) human-made goods and services to others who care about the health of humanity and are willing to invest in it, rather then invest in the dystopian dreams and realities of a handful of wealthy psychopaths who would make Narcissus cease self-staring and shake his head in amazement and sorrow.
I’m proud to be human.
Elated Pixel