According to the WEF (World Economic Forum), 8.5 crore jobs shall be displaced by AI in a span of 3-5 years. Layoffs, job displacements, unemployment and human inactivity are some of the major keywords thrown at you by various media outlets that instill fear in the minds of freshers to promote their predefined agenda.
AI was established with the motivation of developing an assisting hand to humans that would make redundant, repetitive, recreational and mundane tasks easier. AI has never been seen as the replacement to human brilliance. AI doesn’t have the potential to even come close to human brilliance because of my following derivations and inferences :
Now, let’s have a look at the myth versus the facts surrounding this general information -
Myth : AI will consume the job of content writers, script writers, blog writers, content curators, poets, creative writers, etc. because all the aforementioned AI tools can generate all sorts of required content.
Facts : AI will consume the job of any content writers if they repeat the same pattern of content creation without adding a creative element which caters to the general public in a unique way.
AI can only generate generic content which is derived from pre-existing content.
Myth : AI will consume the job of graphic designers and artists, creative prototypers, product designers, image editors and content creators using Photoshop, Canva and other tools.
Fact : AI can never consume the job of a creative designer who derives new styles of creativity and optimizes his/her learnings to potentially create new forms of visual arts.
Myth : AI will replace software developers due to the time, space and economic optimization provided by AI which handles resource management as well.
Fact : AI cannot replace the software developers who write code which isn’t exposed to security vulnerabilities. AI also cannot replace the security of the code written by a human and also the adaptability of a human to learn present frameworks and technologies. AI also can’t resolve debugging unless it reaches a certain potency to run the code it generates by itself.
Imagine, you’re a parent who wants his child to learn something like alphabets, vowels, numbers from 1 to 9, etc for an exam. So, what do you do? You take your own learnings and teach your child what are alphabets, vowels, numbers, birds, etc.
After you teach your child, the examiner generates a command to derive an answer from your child.
So, what does the child do?
He takes the learnings that you taught him and answers the teacher with his response.
Examiner : “What are the vowels in the English language?”
Child : “A, E, I, O and U.”
Examiner : “Good answer. I will give you full marks.”
This is how AI is trained.
Now, of course it isn’t as easy as this, but, AI models are trained with enormous datasets which encompass images, texts, literatures, videos, social media posts, the Internet and many other factors. The accuracy of AI is determined on the basis of probabilities. This is exactly why AI can never replace humans as it doesn’t generate its response on the basis of what’s “right” and “wrong”. It generates its response on what could be “probabilistically” correct.
AI basically goes through five steps :
In the words of Harvard and Stanford professionals,
“The people who oppose AI by doing the donkey work themselves are surely their own nemesis.”
Like any other tool which makes life easier to deal with, AI was also meant to serve the same purpose.
Simply put, AI will only replace the humans who refuse to use AI and actually be blinded by the media agenda. Every AI tool has its purpose and it is amazing to see redundant work being cut down to split seconds due to the power and promise of useful AI.
AI can always serve some suggestions that worked in the past for the betterment of the artistic view but it can never blur the lines of upcoming and emerging projects. Movies, poetry, sports broadcasting, artistic editing, graphic designing, creative writing, script writing, etc are the fields that shall continue to intercept the audience without the presence of AI. AI can only contribute in reducing the amount of technical errors in the scripts to render the script and logic with fact-checking, withstanding historical accuracies, deriving correct logic to produce a flawless artistic creation. It shall always include the touch of human brilliance to make a creative project work.
AI can never help a software developer or a programmer who wants to create his own framework as it requires a certain set of principles and logic which can only be decided by the primary definer i.e. the creator of the framework himself.
AI can never replace an innovator who wants to develop his own product with its own set of strengths and problem solving abilities for a mass problem. You can always refer to “Silicon Valley”, the American TV show which deals with how innovative coders can always find a way through any difficult situations.
Humans tend to get uncomfortable when they see competition and especially when the competitors are something that they created themselves, it is bound to cause a stir in the haplessness of a regular functioning human.
As long as humans find a way to be brilliant and exceptional in their own respective fields and find a way around any sort of competition, there can be no real worries that surround them.
“If a human continues to find mediocrity everyday without having a will to improve, he shall be overtaken by any entity, may it be real or virtual.”
“Be creative. Be potent. Be curious. Be courageous. Be outrageous. Be exceptional. Be brilliant.”
The virtue of brilliance has always been possessed by humans and AI is merely a reflection of the computational and creative power of a human. AI can only give an output based upon the facts and information a human provides. The only thing which can give AI an advantage is the absence of fear of competition. The day we acknowledge the competition and try to present the best version of ourselves, AI would merely be looked upon as a helping tool.