My Current Thoughts on AI: A Time Capsule

We are coming up on the first anniversary of ChatGPT’s release to the public. That means almost a year ago, artificial intelligence became a reality in my life rather than just something that took over future Danville in Phineas and Ferb.

Honestly, I’m scared of AI. I’m scared of the world becoming a grey, emotionless place where humans trudge around, following orders from some evil supercomputer hovering in the sky. I’m scared of there not being any jobs left for me. I’m scared of my brain forgetting how to function because there is a technology that can do everything my brain can do but better. I’m scared that I’m not technologically savvy enough to understand all of what AI can do.

I am writing this blog post to commemorate my current thoughts about AI for future me to reflect on. I want to be able to see if my concerns are valid or if the developments in AI go in a completely different way than I’m expecting.

Here’s the thing, I like ChatGPT. So far, I haven’t had a single negative experience with AI. I think a lot of people’s concerns come from a fear of the unknown rather than valid indications that AI could take over the world and abuse its creators. Developers wouldn’t be working so hard on AI if they didn’t think it could benefit society.

Humans also love vulnerable things like art, music, writing, and even conversation. People don’t just love these things for what they are, but also for how they were created. AI can and will be able to do a lot of things, but no matter how many humanistic qualities it may have, it can’t be a human.

I am currently working towards an artificial intelligence certificate at UF. I decided to get this certificate because I think that AI will eventually be incorporated into every single job available and I want to be ahead in terms of understanding how it works and how I can take advantage of it. If you can’t beat them, join them.

On Insider’s list of “jobs AI is most likely to replace,” the first four are probably the four careers I have been most interested in since beginning college: data analyst, journalist (media jobs), lawyer, and market research analyst. This article scared me into deciding that I need to learn how to be a good cook. The food service and hospitality industry seems to have the most hope at the moment out of my passions.

I am optimistic about what AI can offer the world. That being said, I hope that I continue to hold off on using AI to do the jobs that my brain should know how to do. I have not used AI to write an essay yet and I plan to keep it that way. I hope that I reserve ChatGPT as a tool to write funny raps about my friends and birthday haikus as I do now. I also hope that at some point AI hits a block of what it can comprehend. I hope scientists discover a reason why AI will never have the sophistication that a human does. Finally, I hope that in the future AI will be used to make the world a better, safer, more human place.