I would call myself an "AI realist." I think I belong to that group of people who can admit that artificial intelligence carries a promise of productivity, efficiency and ease, but that it still has limitations, and that it can't be placed in the same equation as the human mind.
The human mind is imperfect. It works quickly, irregularly; it reacts, it perceives, it never shuts down.
AI is a set of smart data, trained on centuries of human progress, creativity, books and snippets of anything available online. And even though we are quite aware of this, more and more humans are outsourcing their thinking, creative and analytical work to artificial intelligence, despite clear indications afterward that the work is AI-made, as if they simply do not care. (Think of the scandal about the recent opinion article published at The Financial Times.)
But we should care more, and we should care now. With the passage of time, anything easily turns into a habit, even constant writing with AI. Sure, AI can summarize data for us; it can help us brainstorm, can fetch sources, can do a lot, but can it write like us? Can it unpredictably write an (imperfect) article like this one?
AI always tends to make everything as straight, as punctual, as comprehensive, as possible because that is what machines do. It does not stop. It asks "Ask anything," and it can stretch the conversation almost forever in a loop that will make you ask yet another question, because it is programmed to do exactly that.
