Lately, I cannot go online for more than half an hour without coming across something to do with artificial intelligence.
I don’t think I am being paranoid.
In at least every hour I spend on the Internet, I estimate that I have come across a topic on AI at least 30 minutes into the session.
I told one of my friends this and they told me to stop being paranoid.
“It’s probably an algorithm that is tailored to recommend to you such topics when you log into whatever place you go to when you are online,” he said.
“Have you been browsing things to do with AI lately?” he asked.
“Not really,” I lied.
I had a manic period sometime back, probably two weeks ago, where I went down this rabbit hole of artificial intelligence.
I was literally searching for topics talking about AI on every single platform I was on.
I just wanted to know what kinds of things people are talking about or worried about when it comes to this particular advancement in technology.
A lot of people are excited about what AI can do or what they can do with AI, especially those people who use technology heavily to do a lot of their daily things at work or at home.
The other half of the people who are not excited about AI are either angry at what it can do or what the implications of what it can do are.
The big question many, including myself, are asking, is “Will AI take our jobs?”
AI is basically a brilliant computer brain that can think like a human being, maybe even better.
If you have not been living under a rock (as I sometimes do), then you probably have heard of ChatGPT already.
It is one example of an AI program that is trained to give very great and detailed responses when prompted with questions or instructions.
It is very good at its job. Maybe it can be too good at its job and put the rest of us out of one. I guess if we stick around, we will find out.
In the meantime, should we get other skills that AI can't replace?
But the one thing I am telling myself to calm myself down and not throw away my computer is that human beings created technology to make work easier and to advance humanity in so many areas and sectors.
So far, I have used AI to my advantage and made work easier on myself to a great extent.
Maybe if we keep that mentality, then we won’t have to go to war with robots and computers like they predict we will one day in so many science fiction films and books.
Usually, Sci-Fi predicts that technology will be both our saviour and our doom.
That one day, maybe AI will be so advanced, it will start to have a mind of it’s own instead of relying on instructions and prompts from human beings to act.
Isn’t that a crazy thought? An artificial intelligence apocalypse that wipes out the entire human population because since it was made by us, it knows us far too well.
It knows we are the architects of our own doom all the time.
