In the very first lecture of the theory class, AI was a scary, unpredictable tool for me. However, after deep thinking and various perspectives, it feels more like a “work buddy”. In this blog, I’d like to elaborate more on this shift in idea I had.
Nowadays, in nearly every sector, people are scared of AI because they think that it is going to “steal our jobs”. It has a low workload and high efficiency. It can collect any data you need and give the desired outcome (to some extent). Hence, it is a very powerful tool to have on your side. Instead of working overtime, you can enter any data you need into an AI generator you desire. If the outcome is not as you thought it would be, you can always hit “enter” as you want. This effortless repeating makes AI both preferred and scary. You can have infinite outcomes in a very short period of time. Also, as AI continues to improve, it optimizes your data entries and becomes ingratiating than any other human being.
However, after the lectures, especially the one with Luca Belli, I’m more convinced that it has limits. AI can only compute what you give. After that, it can predict the holes it has inside its own mind. It cannot work with its own decisions -at this point.- If you enter biased data, then it will compute a biased outcome. Yet, it can’t stop or rethink about it, nor change the “biased” data before it is generated.
Therefore, now, I believe that AI is not a tool to be scared of, but it is a “work friend” to talk with. It doesn’t have its own mind yet; hence, it is still dependent on human data.
But of course, when/if it does… I don’t know where humans will stand.
