There's this training I attended, one certain time. It was a programming course where we were assigned into groups, and each group was assigned a teacher. Now, at that training, it was structured in a way that every group must cover a particular subject in one week, and then, we'll all be assigned a general assignment. The setting worked fine, till my group's trainer started finding it hard to make time for us. It was now left for us to learn it ourselves, just so we could do the assignment.
I remember this particular assignment we were given, that required us to import a particular element from the web. That's something we usually left for last because it was usually the toughest. But I talked to one of my group members and found out that he had actually aced the whole project. He did it, using a tactic nobody in the entirety of our training group knew how to. His technique was even strange to some teachers when it was explained to them. When asked how he did it, he said that he maneuvered his way around the executed codes using chrome, and from inspecting his codes, it introduced him to that technique.
I was stupefied when I tried it out and it actually worked. When I come across people saying AI is a negative invention, I like to leave them to their ignorance. AI is not, and never will be a negative invention. It may have cons but classifying it on the negative side, is on a different level of wrong. That particular incident, made me appreciate AI even more, because it meant I could take pride in writing my codes, knowing that everything was done there, without me having to import styles from a different website.
Artificial intelligence, is something I've come to depend on, in so many aspects of my life. For instance, on WhatsApp, there's this feature where you can mention AI between a conversation, ask it a question, and the answer will be displayed for you and the person on the other end to see. I use this feature a lot, for when I need to clarify something, with proof, in someone's dm. That feature has saved me so many times, from unnecessary long talks and it's all thanks to the AI.
These days, there are even some questions you'll need answers to, you just know that google would do no justice to the question. I can't begin to count the number of times I've texted AI to pick the most appropriate word for a context, and it gave me a precise answer. Whereas, if it were google, I'd have opened three sites, and scanned a hundred words before I find a satisfying answer.
Complete dependence on AI is a con that is talked about most times, but isn't something I think is going to happen anytime soon. The artificial intelligence that have been built so far, don't have minds of their own, they're only able to work with that, which is fed into them either by their developers or their users.
I'm a huge supporter of AI, as an invention, because when used rightly, it becomes one of the greatest tools we humans have at our disposal, that aids to make life better.
This is my entry to the sci-fi prompt for the week
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