2-3-4 Friday: Will AI kill us?
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Recently I spoke to Anaïs Monet, an AI researcher.
Top of mind was:
Will AI destroy jobs that are more social?
It’s pertinent, because you may be serving clients, and you wonder if one of those robots might be better able to listen and counsel the client better.
Or you think ChatGPT might offer better advice to problems than you
can.
Tons have been written on this topic, and I think I
won’t belabour what’s been said many times.
2 lessons from Anaïs (you can listen to the podcast interview we did with her here):
- ChatGPT is not a mind, but a model. It’s a subtle distinction, but a very important one.
Some think that because ChatGPT can string together words in a
logical sort of way, that it is a thinking, sentient being.
No, it’s not. It simply finds information based on your prompts, weighs their relevance algorithmically, and sorts them in a grammatically correct form.
What we sometimes don’t realise is that the insights it brings together is first created by humans.
So as Anaïs puts it,
ChatGPT puts words together,
but it still needs a
human to make meaning from the words.
- AI is not new.
YouTube, Facebook are all examples of AI that sorts posts, and places them in your feed based on how others have engaged with it, and how likely you are to engage with it.
If you’re afraid today of what AI will do to your job, that’s good.
But what might be better would be to learn how to work with it, rather than against it.
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Maybe it’s not change, but becoming more of who you already are.
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Don’t stick your head in the ground, like what I’ve done.
Sometimes we do this because we are scared of what new technologies will do to us.
Anaïs’ advice?
Be curious and open-minded.
We may have heard that advice before.
But I think what’s interesting is how to do that.
Maybe it starts with going for one of those talks. Or reading around the subject.
And then you might come up with a better opinion of what AI will do to your job, and how you can continue to stay relevant.
John
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