Effect of AI That we overlooked
So i am writing this article from my point of view about the AI effects that we may have missed. I am thinking of this for a long time and first i tried many AI tools like perplexity, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT etc. to make article, but i realized that i am contradicting my own belief of minimalizing the usage of AI. So i wrote this article my self and this is my first article that i am writing. So may find mistakes, no structure for the information that is told. I will fix them eventually writing and practicing. Also please tell me the things that i can fix and learn writing a article.
Looking forward in 2021 when i was in my first year of my college, i heard the noise created by ChatGPT. At that time it was fascinating and it felt like something out of the world for most people seeing some AI doing stuff that will take hours and hours time required for a normal people. Compared to the model that we have today the model at that was so much inferior, yet it was astonishing hearing that. So people at the tech field mainly heard this thing and started using that as a normal chatbot asking facts, making a conversation with it, and not so serious things with it.
As time passed the next year ChatGPT got an upgrade and it caught all the people off guard. It is way more intelligent and now solves coding question and answer more complex question. This is where the i think everything started. People started using it, tech professional and students with CS background started using them mainly as their tool to do some of their works. After that ChatGPT is heard every side of the tech world and every one is talking about it. The fact that i am mentioning ChatGPT the most is that for some of the people ChatGPT is AI like some people Google is internet.
Students started using them for their works, assignment projects, etc.. Eventually ChatGPT was getting better and many other competitor are entering the AI after the rumble that is created by ChatGPT. After that there is no need for me to tell what happened every people reading this will definitely know what happened. Layoffs, market changes, change of goals for the company, every one were in movement of “Pursuit of AI”. I hope this lays a better intro for what i am going to tell.
Lets start with what i feel the most important thing for a human to develop at life, personally and by every means is problem solving. On first look that problem solving may look like a normal term that big companies and engineer use themselves. But i got more to it. It goes on every field like finding what we want, searching for something, doing something that we don’t know, learning a thing. We don’t grow by just knowing something we grow by doing things, making mistakes and learning from it. The AI removes part of making mistakes. Humans always goes for the easy solution. So for every problem we face we ask the AI to get the things done. We are not using our brain to think what should we want to do. When using the AI we don’t struggle we directly get what we want, we skipped the part where we struggle. There is where the real learning happens.
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Using AI for every thing may feel accomplished doing things quickly, easy rewarding but is that worth losing authenticity of yourself. You may feel good knowing all the things learning with the help of AI, but that is not the correct path which is my opinion. AI will makes things easier where things needed to be hard to learn. Our brain will eventually likes that easy rewarding mechanism and adapt to it and it will hard coming back from that, it is like addiction.
Technology will makes wiser if we understand what we get and what we loss in adapting to the new trend. Before mobiles phones came people remembers numbers of almost every person that they want to talk. But after mobiles people barely remember their number. In previous years before autocorrection people know spelling of every words that they want to use. Now we just type how we know the word, the autocorrect system will give the correct word. This may looks simple when looked but this has a significant effect on human brain capacity. We reduced the work that we gave to the brain so it stopped working up to the mark.
Another dark pattern that i observed which really fears me is that after frequent use of AI people started picking patterns like AI. Every thing they write, speak has a hint of AI to it. They unknowingly started talking like AI. Since sense pattern and act according to the you can see similar trend all over the internet among people. Many people started using the AI for everything like reply for a blog post, social media post, mails, reply, writings and such things. Since AI is used every where reading different articles sounds same like AI made it. And people also started thinking like a AI speech pattern and writing pattern.
In tech field which is the most impacted field for now by the AI has also significant drawbacks with this. Some People using AI don’t know what it wrote and just believes them. People using AI felt a feel of accomplishment of coding doing big things with out really coding, but using AI.
Thinking, doing complex puzzles, helps our brain to train themselves doing complex things. Our neuron in the brain rewires itself to adapt for complex things that we work on. If we use AI for everything our brain realizes that we get same out put without doing the effort at the end output matter so why struggle and out brain shift and pushes towards the use of AI.
So the beauty of struggling and fighting under the pressure that we learn a lot from what we intend to. Struggling to solve problem we will go through many stages apart from the final out. For example take athlete who is training for 100meter race. To compete in such intense sport he need to be focused, disciplined and put his hard work to it. Through that the athlete will try various method which work and may not work but will definitely teach something and the athlete learn something that will help them. They realizes that failure is not the end we need to keep pushing forward and some we have to find the way to success. They learn a lot of things that will help them in life and their career. But what if they used a assisting device that helps them go fast. What they really learned now?, is that worth it?, is what they achieved is really what they achieved or it is the devices?.. Finally what they got and what lost is really equal to use that device. This is the same scenario on AI you may reach the end but you will be far behind others.
Finally there is some things i need to share but i forgot in the midway . I will write a part two by compiling all the things that i wanted to write. So using AI will be inevitable but using them and losing to them is our choice. Nothing is great if we loss the ability to think, reason, solve. So While using the AI keep it in check for what use. My humble opinion is never use AI to learn skills that involve thinking, problem solving, creativity. Use AI to learn facts thing like biology in case. Nothing comes without a price for AI our sense are the price do not lose that my friend that’s our identity and that makes us superior over all beings in the world.
