During my career, I’ve developed and implemented software using all kinds of languages. Really, though, I’m technology agnostic. That is, I don’t care if I’m using AI, Nyquist, or a notebook. It all comes down to solving problems.
In my experience, people get too hung up on technology and they tend to forget that we operate in a human world. Lately, AI appears to be the popular tech crap of the day. That’s all it is though: more tech crap.
AI, as is the case with all technology platforms, is a tool. Yes, AI has abilities that can become scary. In time, it might even be able to replace humans for certain tasks (such as writing boring policies). But at our very core is something that no technology tool can replace: our humanity.
Technology can never understand what it’s like for a parent when his baby grabs his finger for the first time. Nor can technology taste an approaching rain storm on the wind. But people can. Not only can we experience and savor these things, but we can express them far more fully than any tech platform ever will.
While I understand that AI scares folks, it doesn’t bother me at all. I know that, while AI might be able to objectively replicate a Van Halen guitar solo far more precisely than I ever can, I will understand what made Edie great. He played his guitar fearlessly and with total spiritual immersion. AI can’t ever understand what spiritual immersion even means.
Even if AI develops consciousness, it can not age and experience the combination of sadness and happiness of growing old. Humanity can. Our souls and emotions are what provide life meaning; AI has neither and will never be able to express what it feels like to watch a life light dim.
Therefore, I’ll continue to develop and explore various tech platforms. But I will never become a slave to the power of tech. My humanity will always drive whatever solution I’m researching and artificial intelligence can just kiss my brown…forehead!!
