AI is becoming stronger, and what it can do is becoming increasingly scary. AI art, AI interactions, and machine-learning-powered technology may all be daunting. It’s reasonable that some people are concerned about a nightmarish rise of the-machine scenario. Fortunately, it shouldn’t be on your or anybody else’s radar just yet.
So, in this essay, we’ll explain why you shouldn’t be concerned about artificial intelligence anytime soon. True, AI can do many magical feats. AI has a near-infinite number of potential applications. That is also correct. But AI isn’t this all-encompassing, all-powerful, sentient-like technology.
Take, for example, AI art. There’s a lively debate going on right now, particularly online, about what AI art means, if we should be concerned about neural nets replacing artists, and whether it’s even a dangerous thing to exist. But there’s some good news: AI art isn’t all that terrifying.
While AI can answer queries and interpret data, and even make visuals and sounds, it is still a long way from replacing artists. You may enter your tests into a textbox to generate a lovely piece of music. You can’t get AI to produce a satisfactory sequel to your favorite novel. You can’t even get AI to create a video game for you.
The truth is that AI art isn’t truly AI that can create art in the way we generally conceive of it. We’re still a long way from AI movies, consciousness, and other mind-bending science-fiction technologies. Yes, AI is a terrific tool to use in the production of art, but it is something that directly helps artists and creatives rather than harms them.
Finally, what is frightening about AI art is that it might generate interesting and appealing work that cannot be identified as being created by a computer. If it were conceivable, there would be reasons to be concerned, even if there are other reasons why it would not be the worst thing ever. However, in most cases, this is just not feasible.
Sure, you can point to the occasional graphic design competition that was won by something AI-generated in the here and now, but unless you’re really looking for a cause to feel some existential dread on that particular day, this isn’t anything occurring in the actual world that’s worth worrying about. There is no harm done, and artists are not being laid off in large numbers.
However, we are unlikely to see a Cyberpunk dystopia or a rise-of-the-machine scenario in which mankind is exterminated during our lifetimes. Just as the sun will burst one day and it will be an issue for future humans to cope with, if we are still alive by then. There is nothing that can be done about it right now.
However, there is a lot of good that can be done with AI right now. Money and lives may both be saved. We can make difficult things much simpler, and we can achieve new, never-before-attempted objectives. We can now develop incredible things that were formerly only seen in science fiction. As a tool, AI may help the human species advance to the next stage of its development.
Yes, as time passes and AI grows, there will be genuine and important issues that we must confront and handle, but there isn’t much need to be concerned about what AI will do to mankind as we’re now living 2023.