Age of AI

    Living In The Age of AI; What to Know About It

    

 Everyone knows about Artificial Intelligence by now and about the rise and growth it has made in the past few years. AI has been the talk of the table for years, weather the discussion is on how it is beneficial or how it is ruining certain parts of life. You can find it when looking at art social media, talking to a representative online, or in your work place. Let's talk about it!

    Recently I watched PBS's Frontline documentary titled In the Age of AI and it has me thinking about AI and the pros and cons. One of the most interesting parts of the video is when they discuss AI in the workplace. Molly Kinder's brought attention to the idea that AI would greatly affect women's jobs, listing a few would include cashier, payroll, HR, etc. Harry Cripps talks about his fear and disappointment with the people at the top making more and more money while the working class can't support their families. I decided to look deeper into these claims myself. 

    Jobs that CEO's are looking to replace are data entry, marketing, and HR; fields that have a large margin of women. These jobs will also be something that can very easily be coded into a machine. AI is able to give corporate more concise information when analyzing and processing data, leaving less room for human error. Human Resources handles a lot with hiring and employee data, AI would help track employee performance, sorting through applications, and sales data. On the marketing side of business it will help predict trends and consumer behaviors, detailed by FIU College of Business. 

    AI is a great resource for the company and owners, they would have less employees and quicker and more efficient data. Awesome right? Not fully. These jobs are what keep food on the table for not just women, but also men. These jobs are often over looked by big corporations as being "easily replaceable," but these are people's livelihoods. Once AI takes over that job where will they go? Cashiering? Not anymore with the rise of self checkout and ordering groceries on Amazon, an already talked about point from In The Age of AI. 

    A topic that wasn't discussed in the video was the topic of AI in art. Seeing a bad AI image on social media isn't uncommon and sure you can just laugh it off in the moment but there are AI "artists" or those who use AI to their benefits, not caring who gets hurt in the end. Chad Scott's The Impact of AI on the Art World article was really insightful for me. With the growth in AI's improvements some art can be nearly indistinguishable to actual artists pieces. CNN and ARTnews both wrote about when artists found out that their art was being used to train AI, ultimately ripping off all their hard work. Chad Scott's final point in his article is why I believe AI should stay out of the creative world. AI lacks human experiences, truths, and the ability to connect on a deeper level through art. AI is a computer and can analyze and generate data but actually capturing expressions it can not do. Human's create art as a form of expression, storytelling, and capturing worlds around them, fiction and non- fiction. 

     My final thought on Artificial Intelligence is that it can bring a lot of benefits and good but when given to the wrong hands it is easy to get carried away. There is a quote by Edward De Bono that I often go back to when discussing AI that says "There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns." It's an excellent quote that reminds us that human's are valuable because they have their own thoughts and ideas. They are how companies find newer, better ways to grow and improve, while AI looks at the old and what did work. Growth is about looking forward and expanding the mind for new possibilities.