Re: AI poll, I voted 'I don't know'. My opinion changes every day.
Sometimes I worry if I'll be out of a job because if AI can write and give us swathes of information, what do we need teachers and writers for? While current AI writing isn't as good as humans yet, I'm astounded by how far its progressed in the last 12 months. And even though writers and teachers teach us how to think, in addition to teaching content, I worry that much of society doesn't value this part of education. Learning isn't so much about knowing stuff, as it is learning how to think about stuff. I also feel like AI is evolving so fast that I can't hope to learn how to use it as a tool because I'm too busy trying to make a living with the work I do have, and to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start.
At the same time, I can see the possibility of AI elimintating human errors in medical or machine diagnoses, or doing complex calculations in a heartbeat, which would be supremely helpful. Or software like Delphi that allows you to "talk to" come of the world's greatest minds in an almost conversational way.
Perhaps I'm worrying over nothing. Maybe it's a hot topic for doom scrolling, but it'll end up being a technology like any other - the printing press, the computer, the car?
I'm in a similar spot—lots to enjoy now, lots to (potentially) look forward to, but also a lot of change already happening, and (possibly) still more on the horizon. Could be a paradigm-shift moment...but could also be something akin to the crypto-bonanza, but with more immediately useful, practical products alongside all the scams. Staying optimistic and interested, while also being aware that it's probably prudent to be flexible and have some alternative career-paths ready in the back-pocket, just in case.
Noticeably missing from the AI poll was "both a threat and an opportunity" which seems most likely. Thus I voted threat. My biggest objection to AI so far (articulated well by Chuck Wendig) is that all the training was done on existing IP with no permission or compensation, and now those same corporations can say "Instead of paying you half a million dollars to write a screen play (for example) we had the AI do it. We'll just pay you $15 an hour to rewrite the whole thing since what the AI spit out (trained on YOUR IP BTW) was such crap. Thanks word monkey!" I very obviously want AI to do the drudge work I don't want to do, so I can create art, and not Vice Versa.
Re: AI poll, I voted 'I don't know'. My opinion changes every day.
Sometimes I worry if I'll be out of a job because if AI can write and give us swathes of information, what do we need teachers and writers for? While current AI writing isn't as good as humans yet, I'm astounded by how far its progressed in the last 12 months. And even though writers and teachers teach us how to think, in addition to teaching content, I worry that much of society doesn't value this part of education. Learning isn't so much about knowing stuff, as it is learning how to think about stuff. I also feel like AI is evolving so fast that I can't hope to learn how to use it as a tool because I'm too busy trying to make a living with the work I do have, and to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start.
At the same time, I can see the possibility of AI elimintating human errors in medical or machine diagnoses, or doing complex calculations in a heartbeat, which would be supremely helpful. Or software like Delphi that allows you to "talk to" come of the world's greatest minds in an almost conversational way.
Perhaps I'm worrying over nothing. Maybe it's a hot topic for doom scrolling, but it'll end up being a technology like any other - the printing press, the computer, the car?
Also, I LOVE that painting!!!
I'm in a similar spot—lots to enjoy now, lots to (potentially) look forward to, but also a lot of change already happening, and (possibly) still more on the horizon. Could be a paradigm-shift moment...but could also be something akin to the crypto-bonanza, but with more immediately useful, practical products alongside all the scams. Staying optimistic and interested, while also being aware that it's probably prudent to be flexible and have some alternative career-paths ready in the back-pocket, just in case.
I couldn't have put it better myself!
Noticeably missing from the AI poll was "both a threat and an opportunity" which seems most likely. Thus I voted threat. My biggest objection to AI so far (articulated well by Chuck Wendig) is that all the training was done on existing IP with no permission or compensation, and now those same corporations can say "Instead of paying you half a million dollars to write a screen play (for example) we had the AI do it. We'll just pay you $15 an hour to rewrite the whole thing since what the AI spit out (trained on YOUR IP BTW) was such crap. Thanks word monkey!" I very obviously want AI to do the drudge work I don't want to do, so I can create art, and not Vice Versa.
Ack! Thought I had that option on there—major oversight, thanks for bringing that up!