I’m not an AI developer or AI expert, but I’ve drank enough of the KoolAid to create at least a solid opinion about all the hype:
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The better you know math, the more helpful a calculator becomes. You have to develop and hone your skills so that you know your way around. No AI in the world will do that skill-building for you.
Over time, we have learned to use Google, to trust it and, yes, to „hack“ it as and if we please. At that point, no one said, „Yes, but can I trust the search results?“
Because everyone knew: „Of course not!“ Because that’s our job as humans: to separate the right from the wrong – fact from fiction – common sense from mumbo jumbo tinfoil talk.
In the Anglo-Saxon world, this is also called „media literacy“. Lifelong learning and adapting to circumstances has always been our evolutionary advantage.
So now it will increasingly be AI systems that we have to live with and adapt to. And here, too, the following applies: Shit in Shit out – especially for services that, at their core, are driven by one form of AI or another. The more I know about a system, the better, smarter, freer I can use it to my advantage.
It’s not AI that will take your job away, but those who use AI smarter than you do.