A blessing and a curse, our savior and destroyer.
The notion of a gift, that is both a blessing and a curse, is well-trodden parable fodder. I’ve been reflecting on this duality while looking back on the past year of building AI-powered tools. Talking AI with friends and colleagues often leads to polarized views: solution accelerator vs doombringer, superpower enabler vs job killer, etc. Some of my thoughts about these two sides of AI and my current stance, follows...
BTW, a GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) did not write this. I believe no one really wants to ready articles written by AI. As no one wants to listen to music created by AI. Or watch movies or TV shows generated by AI. Beyond the novelty, as soon is there’s no person to connect with, and relate to, it’s dead. AI is a mirror of ourselves, so the life in it we see is the remnant of the human spirit.
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