Will AI Soon Help Us With Creative Work?
Will AI replace your job?
It is a million-dollar question that haunts many working professionals.
But do you know where it all began?
It all began in 1950 when Alan Turing, mathematician & scientist, asked a question; ‘can machines think?’
The same year, he published a paper entitled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence and posed the so-called ‘Turing Test’ or what he called, ‘The Imitation Game.’
It would work like this:
- An interrogator asks questions in a separate room; unseen is a human being and a computer.
- Both would answer the questions
- Can the interrogator distinguish the human response from the machine?
- If not, in Turing’s view, the computer will have become a thinking machine.
Although his test got criticised by many, Alan Turing remains the one that opened the door to a field that would soon be called AI.
Today, companies like Open AI have introduced AI-enabled image-generating tools like DALLE and DALL-E 2, creating panic among graphic designers and artists who feel they might lose their jobs.
But that I feel is not true.
You will lose your job if you don’t learn how to adapt.
Because as a creative professional, the skill here is to provide the correct prompt/input to the computer- which requires strategic and creative thinking.
So technically, you still have a creative job, the nature of the job, however, has changed to get the same desired result (or even better) – in this case, graphics.
I believe, AI will help us and not destroy us.
Like the industrial revolution we are now passing through an AI revolution, machines then replaced human labour even in areas which humans could not dream of even up to till recently, and eventually, we reconciled thinking that manual labour is below human dignity.
AI is expected to follow a similar trajectory and will be able to replace most cognitive and creative tasks over a period, to an unbelievable level that we will again reconcile by saying “cognition is below human dignity”.
Indeed, humans are made for empathy and emotions, and therefore, those in the industry of love, happiness, passion buildup, collaboration, teaming up, empathy, nurture of children, and storytelling as in dramatics and movies may have a bright future.
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