Pause your reading 🫣, and try to imagine a world without AI, nothing helps you to generate those “official responses” or the curated autocomplete you suddenly get while coding, wondered if you would be able to find that post from the page you did not follow? 🤔. What prompted this article was some of those questions, for a minute I found it hard to imagine a world where AI doesn’t exist or you don’t get that ease from using technology to perform those “repeated tasks” or even the ones you don’t know being performed on your behalf.
If you are above 30 you might find it a bit easy to imagine a world without technology and sometimes I ask if I can live in a world like that cause I have to somewhat admit that I can’t live without technology (directly or indirectly). You might say you can but sincerely ask yourself that question. No Uber, Google Maps, Phones, Laptop, Video Calls.
AI is said to be the 5th industrial revolution and it looks scary and exciting at the same time, the job loss and ease of performing tasks, connecting with people from afar and losing touch with nature outside. I try to be a student of history from time to time and one consistent occurrence to the beginning of a revolution is very much related to that feeling; scary and exciting.
I remember having a talk about 7 years back and the “naive” and enthusiastic me believed that a lot of jobs would be lost to AI At that moment I never really understood how it would happen exactly but looking at the previous 2 years it’s probably clearer now. Get a pen and paper or (Your phone 🫣😂) Write out if your current job or career would be lost to AI in 10 years, if you aren’t sure get on Google and do some research, if you get a 30 to 60% chance of that happening I would advise something called Copilot.
I currently use GitHub Copilot for my job almost every day and I was telling a colleague recently that I’m not so sure how I would write code going forward without it cause it just helps me get my job done faster than I would do it on my own, even better and more efficiently once I figured out how best to use it. Find the “Copilot” for your field, that AI-based tool that would help 10x your current work, trust me there are free ones out there, based on personal preference I use Bard over ChatGPT cause it has more real-time data, you can find something similar or even use the same Bard or ChatGPT,
Learn Prompt-Engineering, probably all my friends are tired of me saying this 🫣😂, cause anytime I hear that an AI tool isn’t giving the expected response my thought is that the person giving the input isn’t giving it in the most optimized way possible. Think of the first time you had to use Google, you probably got a few correct answers or websites at first but with time you had to change how to pass input cause you realized that there is a better way to go about it. It’s pretty much the same with AI, you have to learn how to ask a question, in a way you would get the best-suited answer, I would link a 45-minute course on this.
Finally, think of AI as an enhancement, it might displace your job but it’s just changing your role which simply means you should think differently about your current role, upskill, be curious, leverage the tools you have and remember to always evolve, don’t settle and keep improving. See you next time.
