The emergence of AI taught a lot of us one thing, nothing is impossible. With the features it offers, it has made life easier for a lot of people. We now live in an era where we have something that offers a clear and summarized answered to our questions. I'm not saying the way it used to be is not productive but to compare what we have now, with what we had in those days; there is a very huge difference. Especially for content creators, business owners, students e.t.c The days we had to stay awake all night to browse the internet, scanning through different articles is finally over.
There is a tool that gets the job done, in seconds. Making our efforts more cost effective, you don't want me to go into the details of the cost of designing thumbnails, graphic content, now everyone is a graphic designer. Just imagine it and it shall be done. For people who are quite vast in the knowledge of make use of AI, there are some features that feels like a miracle, especially with automated message advantages for we business owners handling different social media platforms to promote our business. The headache of having to come up with creative messages for every response and replying everyone is overwhelming.
The contribution AI has made in our lives is quite magnificent, I once witnessed an engineer create a 3D display of a building using AI, do you know how much people pay to get that done and he just did it without flinching, which is something anyone can do, as long as you have the right imagination.
For a tool with such capabilities, it does comes with risk. The greatest one among it all is the issue of deepfake. In this era, it is getting almost impossible to differentiate between what is original and fake. AI in its early stage was used to mimick what is original, which means there is always some sort of inadequacy or a twitch that stands out making what is created by AI obvious. But AI algorithm is getting all kinds of updates, its model is learning, it doesn't mimick original anymore, it creates it. In fact it is almost impossible for AI to detect what is created by AI, that how smart this tool has gotten.
AI now pose as a threat to everything we stand for, someone somewhere with criminal or mischievous intent and creative can create all sort of things about anyone or anything without permission. Which means you could be anywhere and someone can create an inappropriate images or videos of you. The videos are the worst, the way it makes everything sound and feel so real is mind blowing. Knowing this is just the beginning, and everyone is now an advocate for the movement "Restriction of AI" but there is something missing in this debate.
Elon musk said a long time ago, when he spoke about creating an agency or entity that ensures AI is regulated and act within the confines of the law. But in those days, people could barely see sense in what he was saying. He somehow knew the capabilities of AI will definitely be beyond what humans could control.
As a person, I'm not against restricting AI, just to make sure it acts more responsibly. As a media person, I know how much damage misrepresentation of a person, entity or firm can do to their reputation. Which is something AI can do without stressing but the issue is not really the technology but we the users.
We humans, arguably are the worst of all plagues that ever walked this earth. We maximize every too capability of max destruction. Chaos and pain is our DNA, it is something we inflict effortlessly. Speak of any tool that has ever been manufactured that we humans have not taken advantage of? there is none.
Technology is not going anywhere, either we restrict AI or not, it will keep advancing. But there is something that is not going anywhere anytime, it is we humans. We have to find ways to make sure we coexist with the technology we make, without it becoming a tool of our own destruction. The problem is the users not the tool because as bad as this tool might seem to a lot of people, it is the best we have got in this generation and I'm just glad I lived long enough to see it.
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