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AI Take over Writing-Not a Chance!
To all the writers bemoaning their fate, fearing the
imminent takeover of their jobs by AI, my sincere advice is to "Stop the
whining and start writing!" AI as it exists today is too dumb to even
attempt to replace writers. I am also willing to go out on a limb to say that
it never can-no matter how much it evolves. A technology that requires us to
prompt it, and turns to content already created by us to regurgitate what we created cannot even begin to replace
us. It makes no sense.
AI is not a life form that will try and supplant us. I am
not too sure that it will ever be in competition with us for the control of
planet Earth and its resources, even if we
teach it to think autonomously one day. Parents train their children to be
autonomous of them, yet they never really do, even with all the freedom they
have. Do you think that mankind with its programmed proclivity to be self-centred,
manipulative and primed to survive at all costs will ever let that happen?
The great sci-fi writer Arthur C Clarke believed that the
day is not far when mechanical life will replace organic life and not only
should we not resist it, we should probably look at it as something
evolutionary that was bound to happen. He likened it to the Homo Sapiens wiping
out the Neanderthals. Again bunkum! AI is nothing but another tool made by
clever mankind, something it has been doing for hundreds and thousands of
years.
AI has as little chance of destroying the very human
proclivity to write as the automobile has of destroying our ability to walk or
a boat has of doing away with our ability to swim. As long as there is mankind,
it will always have the urge to create something, and AI is not going to stop
us from doing that. It can at best only follow our lead and try to second-guess
what we might be thinking. It needs to pick our brains and not otherwise. So,
buckle up and keep writing.
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