AI Is Here

Introduction

I posted this on LinkedIn today. It is not 100% corporate-oriented. In fact, it has nothing to do with the spirit of the platform.  My intention was to reach those feeling the "pinch" to offer them my vision and understanding of what we are witnessing today means.

The Post

My daily feed is full of posts telling me what “AI” has “done.” My response to that is: Do not be afraid, embrace it.

This is what I think.

At this very moment, humanity is in the middle of a Revolution.

Every home has books, tons of them. Many years ago, humanity had a decent profession: the scribes. Their job was to write books by hand. Generations depended on these scribers.  Then the printing press was invented, and they had to reinvent themselves. The result was that more books were printed, newspapers appeared, and information reached a wider audience. People learned to read.

Amazing.

Centuries passed, and industrialists made a big push, which climaxed with the Industrial Revolution. Productivity skyrocketed, and there was more of everything. True, there were excesses, accompanied by abuse and exploitation. But let’s also see the good part of it: humanity moved forward.

Now AI is here.

I look around, and I see pain in others. Many feel misplaced. Some are scared. I understand that. Big changes always create uncertainty.

Use AI, but with a caveat.

Do not let it do your thinking. That would be like watching a YouTube video where you sit back and relax while someone explains how Entity Framework loads navigation objects, whether you use “virtual” or not in your code.

Use it. Ask questions. In the end, you will find that you are learning from AI. But you still need to exercise your brain.

My opinion? There will be casualties on both sides.

Companies that rely too heavily on AI to appease investors are risking their most valuable asset, because companies are not the software, but the people who make it work. AI cannot do that on its own.

And if you find yourself a “casualty” of this new Revolution, I offer this:

Do not be afraid. Use it. Learn. You will be OK.

Postscript

The image accompanying this post is amazing; it captures the post in its entirety. It looks like history in a stream—flowing from right to left—while I stand at a window looking on. I can't wait to see what comes next after AI... The Universe! I’ll look back at this post one day and realize it was written at the very beginning of this new chapter.

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