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A popular proverb says that “the future belongs to the people who dare to dream.” However, in this issue of the evolving of AI and the things it can do, I think that people are overdreaming and taking it further than we all think. While some see it as a welcomed development, others view it as disruptive and interfering.
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Imagine a world where AI makes important decisions in our everyday live, from our health, career, our transportation, feeding and even interfere in our decision making. Would it be something humanity will be happy about, will it cause disharmony, chaos or help humanity to widen their scope, efficiency and effectiveness? It is a puzzle we are yet to figure out.
Last year, one of my previous workplaces laid off many staff owing to the fact that they imported and installed AI robots to work in the packaging department of their factory. That step pitched them against the union workers. The two of them struggled until they struck a balance to pay off those employees.
Nowadays, Schools use AI interactive boards, hospitals use AI scanners and machines that read people's health and gives them medical advice. Recently, we are witnesses of AI driven vehicles. The question is where do we go from here? The other day, one of my colleagues went to the hospital. He returned and shared his story on how he watched the interns ask him questions about his health with AI activated gadgets that proffered further questions. After that session, the interns gave medical recommendations with the assistance of the AI gadgets before he was transferred to a specialist for final consultancy.
Furthermore, I have watched with keen, how AI stores use data in such a way that whenever you go back to ask another question, it will refer to the previous data the individual shared, while also linking it to the present enquiry before proffering a suggestion to the enquiry the person is making.
That notwithstanding, AI cannot be condemned outrightly, it has made our jobs, troubleshooting, data analysis, and learning easy. Research has also been deepened through AI, information is provided at the tip of our fingers in broad dimensions. AI has also made a lot of people rich and completely resourceful. It has made us effective, efficient and productive in diverse ways. Infact, AI has made our lives easy.
However, beyond all these benefits lays the major consequences and trouble. It has made a lot of people very lazy and redundant. People cannot exercise their brains again to write, solve problems in a minute without consulting AI. Again, it has led to confusion and wrong data because users copy assumed data on AI to work on real time data leading to wrong analytical conclusions. Humans have lost massive jobs due to the alleged fact that AI can replace humans, however, in reality, it has some limitations compared to human because it is still human that builds and updates it.
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So, in conclusion, the knowledge of AI is kind of limited to what humans can do. A human being can decide to ignore or stop using it to do any work and that ends it, but if it is a human, the person goes somewhere else when their roles are terminated to look or even upgrade to better opportunities, but AI has no such powers. Therefore, what we need is more control as to the usage, just like the plagiarism, copyright controls and the implementation of other controls to limit the usage to save humanity from brain drain. Other than that, I can say that humans are still in complete control of AI, and no shaking for now.