Artificial Intelligence is here to make a difference.
Anything we do is related in one way or the other with artificial intelligence and neural networks. Decisions are now more efficient. Productivity will be higher than ever. Computations are conducted in an instant. Advanced systems will be controlled by algorithms. Problem solving will be not only assisted but lead by computers, with humans essentially put aside to watch.
Most businesses will take advantage of these developments and soon humans will be replaced by computers when it comes to decision making and even creative thinking, in the same way machines have already replaced us in all difficult mechanical engineering works that are now fully automated in every factory across the world.
But where will that lead?
What will happen to us all?
Worry not.
We have a beautiful way of surviving in such cases. We have done this before. And we will do it again with artificial intelligence, as we have done with other similar cases.
Chess.
Walking.
We have ignored computers in the past and we will do it again.
Take chess for example. During the latest years computers are so strong in chess that there is no point in comparing them. Computers play chess much better than any human to the point that there is no point in playing them at full strength not even for entertainment purposes. Computers have now their own separate tournaments to compete. There is no point in trying to beat them, even in handicapped matches.
And yet, humans still play chess.
How do we manage that miracle?
Simple.
We just ignore them.
And now we play on own own.
This does not negate the fact that computers play better than us. We have accepted that. We just play along with them and have fun.
Similar case is something more fundamental: Walking. Humans like walking. And yet with the advent of cars, they are able to go wherever they want without walking. Still, we do walk. Not because we walk faster than cars. But because we like walking slower than them.
Computers and machines are better than us in many ways.
But we are better.
Only because we can live while being worse than them.
In work, we will survive as well. We will find our way. To evolve. To find what makes us human once more. In a world were everything is automated and effective, we will show the world that being the best is not the way to go. Humans can be slow. We can make mistakes. We can be less effective and yet we can still do things the computers will never do.
Things incomplete.
Things imperfect.
Flaws that make us remember.
Most news related to software, medicine, or any other important field of human civilization will soon be related in one way or the other with Artificial Intelligence. Soon we will be out of the picture. And computers will dictate what we see, what we discover, what we think. And we will be so efficient, so progressed. That we will lose any sense of our self…
But we need to try.
To do what we cannot do.
And stay humans.
Come.
Let’s go for a walk.
Let’s play chess.
Let’s drink coffee and go to work!
