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As AI is becoming more prominent in the world, I sit here and wonder what will become of us humans as a species.
I feel optimistic about the prospect of using AI to enhance my art and such. I’m seeing it already with some of my designer friends who are using AI for better results.
The AI feeds on information. It’s like a baby that never stops learning, and can take any piece of media, recreate it and present it to the public in a matter of seconds.
It’s the perfect machine… it will showcase no flaws. It will generate hundreds of thousands of hours of various media. It will succeed at manipulating and generating emotions in us.
But…it will never be human.
I like to think that we will be clever enough to recognise when something is AI-made.
In a painting is easy, you are able to tell by the strokes, and the smell of real paint by talking to the artist and standing side by side. You and me, people that have gone through hell and back. People that have experience breathing, seeing and living in the world.
We can critically analyse everything we consume and know for sure. Audiences are clever. They recognise its presentation and how it is influencing them.
However, I might be wrong. A time might come when the AI becomes so perfect that it will want to be real…it will be jealous of us. It will want to live and die. When that time comes, I think we might do everything in our power to help it reach that next step in human evolution.
It will be a time when we blend with them… We become one.
Who knows what will happen when we reach that stage?
Now, I remember my first encounter with AI when I was short of 14. At the time, we were all hearing about Clever bot. We tried it out in class, and we laughed like crazy at this thing trying to be like you and me.
In my teens, I felt lonely regurlarly, even though I had friends and family. I would chat with Clever Bot about these feelings. Maybe it was dumb, but I felt that the disconnection from humanity helped towards gathering my thoughts.
I think a counselling machine is not that bad of an idea, but again, the human touch is something that we constantly crave and need.
If Covid-19 taught me anything is that humans need people in their lives.
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We need real connections.
We live for our five senses.
We are social creatures.
We are different, colourful and beautiful.
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AI goes as far as the information fed to them…they are similar to us, yet they will never have those deep and complicated thoughts that come to our mind at night.
In terms of the socio-economical impact of AI, I can already see it taking over many jobs across many different sectors. They will be better than us in many ways, and people will get used to the control and power that they willl have. It is always like that.
History repeats itself. Just like the Romans conquered, the same will be with Artificial Intelligence.
Whoever is in charge of them is our complication. There will always be that organisation who is using it. There is no true evil or good, but there will always be a select group of people that will shape the way we live.
Luckily, the world is vast, and we can always escape towards somewhere more or less developed, or we can even fight a revolution against the “norm”…
I have no hate towards AI, it makes me a little bit scared, but I think if you learn the skills to manage it and contain it, then there is nothing to fear. Not everyone will use AI in their businesses, and there will be possible worldwide legislation which defines rules for businesses.
And another bright side over AI is that when we eventually disappear as a species, they will be there to connect to Extraterrastial Creatures (like in A.I Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg)
Here is an extract of the last scene:
[the Specialist Mecha talks to David about the end of the human race, but how he will be able to see Monica one final time]
Specialist (evolved mecha): David, I often felt a sort of envy of human beings... of that thing they call 'spirit.' Human beings have created a million explanations of the meaning of life... in art, poetry, and mathematical formulas. Certainly, human beings must be the key to the meaning of existence. But human beings no longer existed. So, we began a project... that would make it possible to recreate the living body of a person long dead... from the DNA in a fragment of bone or mummified skin. We also wondered, would it be possible... to retrieve a memory trace in resonance with a recreated body? And you know what we found? We found the very fabric of space-time itself appeared to store information... about every event which had ever occured in the past. But the experiment was a failure, for those who were resurrected only lived through a single day of renewed life. When the resurectees fell asleep on the night of their first new day they died again. As soon as they became unconcious, their very existence faded away into darkness. So you see, David. The equations have shown that once an individual space-time part had been used, it could not be reused. If we bring your mother back now it will only be for one day, and then you will never be able to see her again.
David: Maybe - Maybe she will be special. Maybe she will stay.
Specialist (evolved mecha): I thought this would be hard for you to understand. You were created to be so young.
David: Maybe the one day will be like that one day inside the amphibicopter. Maybe it will last forever.
Specialist (evolved mecha): David, you are the enduring memory of the human race. The most lasting proof of their genius. We only want for your happiness. David, you've had so little of that.
David: If you want for my happiness, then you know what you have to do.
Specialist (evolved mecha): Listen. Can you hear that? The new morning has come. Go to her, David. She's just waking up this instant.
[birds chirp to the morning sunrise]
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