Almost the whole of my Saturday, of course, the teaching hours excluded, was lost to attending online seminars on the AI. Passionately paeans were sung to how the AI can 're-present' your c.v., how the AI can create a mock interview for you, and so on, for instance. What troubled the 'doubting Thomas' inside me was the simple fact staring right there like a billboard! Well, would not EVERYONE try all these methods so very easily accessible? How would then your candidature be distinctive?
Much worse was to come late in the evening. The evening session was literally "banana". Yes, that is the 'name' of the AI programme! Was it 'banana' in all the senses of the term, both in English as well as Hindi! You bet! People found 'banana' a zapp, while they would not even know that in basic simple English, people, that is, human beings alone would have a 'name'. Rest all have a title! Who cares though? Oh, please, not the usual trash about Macaulay, et al! Why? Well, the hold over the mother tongue, or Hindi, is equally abysmal!
What I found truly amazing is the horrible fact staring at us in the face, in the eyes, and, oh, yes, in the (no-)brain. More and more, the AI is thus making everyone a derivative user. You do not have to write your own C.V., you need not research even an iota about your future job, for instance. The AI does it all for you. You merely consume! Has the post-(etc etc)capitalism mode already eaten us up!!! Proper revenge it has managed on its perpetrators!
Much worse is the loss of creativity. With the "banana" app, for instance, the machine is already making, thinking, building, designing, writing for you!?! When you write a piece, when you draw a picture, when you design a visual, when you create a tune, you are 'thinking' anew. That is what makes us truly human(e). If some app is doing it (already, when the AI is still in its primitive most stage), what would be the meaning or future of any creative effort which would by definition be wiped out! Genuinely I pity the poor souls who 'create' the Ghibli avataars of themselves. They need not actually. They ARE cartoons!
Forget the loss of jobs because it can be argued that the AI may create new jobs, a premise which is highly suspicious. Anyways, let me leave that aside. How about the truth value of any 're-presentation' at all? As it is, there is already a total lack of privacy. No, I am not talking about the very many cameras everywhere. Well, every use of the e-media, mind you, your phones now get the 'meta' help whether or not you want it, leaves imprints that are world-wide, and impossible to wipe out.
Much much worse now are the mix-up's allowed by the AI which are far more sophisticated, and, unfortunately, far far easier to manage/manipulate than any Photoshop, et al! That total obliteration of the truth, of reality, and in the easiest way imaginable, is the real absolute danger of the AI bomb, given the total relativism, more dangerous than mere falsehoods. Deadlier it is than the most sophisticated atom bomb! Post truth society, ahoy!
Pratima@ Now never ever believe not only what fools gossip about your near and dear ones. Do not believe what you see either. It can be sheer concoction.
Remember, between your eyes and ears, is your forehead, the 'temples', symbolic of your brains. USE your brains. As it is, the whole of the AI evolution is hell-bent on destroying them anyways!
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