It hasn’t been long since we found ourselves immersed in AI tools. Although the concepts of AI and machine learning aren’t new, the public wasn’t truly overwhelmed by them until the release of GPT-3. So what do you actually think about all of this? How do you feel about the sudden flood of AI everywhere? These days, everyone talks about AI. Many new ideas seem to be nothing more than wrappers around an AI API. People keep saying they’re building something, but is it really them building it or the AI? And, does it really matter who has made it?
Now, similar to COVID, it feels like our lives have split into two periods: pre-AI and post-AI (To be more accurate, after GPT-3 release). It’s becoming difficult to imagine what life looked like without it. Whenever I think about COVID, it feels like it was a pandemic from a distant past, but then I remind myself that it happened only a few years ago. That’s how easily our minds distort time.
I’ve always enjoyed learning about new technologies. Following advancements used to genuinely excite me. But recently, I’ve started feeling overwhelmed. Every morning brings some new headline about what AI can do or what someone believes it will do. One day, an expert claims that, within a couple of years, most jobs will be replaced by AI agents. The next day, another expert says the opposite. But what does the public think? Are people happy about this direction? Are they excited? Or are they quietly afraid about what this uncertainty means for their kids?
I remember when Google started overtaking Yahoo. Some people worried that human critical thinking would decline. They argued that a search engine like Google would stop people from reasoning and push them to look up answers immediately instead of thinking. More than a decade has passed since that debate, and now we’ve stepped into an entirely new era. Did those fears come true? Are people even less inclined to think for themselves? Which leads to the bigger question: beyond the fear of being replaced, what will happen to the way we think?
Overall, it feels like a love-hate story. Some days I’m excited about what AI can offer, such as asking NotebookLM to generate a short video from any Wikipedia article or realizing that I don’t need to know every programming language to build something. As long as I understand the core concept, AI can help me turn an idea into a working product. Although it is not perfect, it has already evolved faster than I expected. On other days, though, I’m exhausted by the pace of change.
What will happen next? We’ll see. You don’t need to wait years to find out anymore. Everything shifts day by day. That’s all the questions I like to answer myself, along with a huge effort to adapt to changes.
P.S: The bright side of AI is that it takes less time to generate an image. 😅