What Impact Will AI Have On You?

Tuesday, 9.08pm

Sheffield, U.K.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. – B. R. Ambedkar

I haven’t worked on my thesis in a few days and it’s been nagging at me – I know that I should do it.

I was a bit worried because I couldn’t remember where I had gotten to and how I would lay down the next sentence.

So I had a quick look at the document and realized something interesting.

The last time I worked on the page I was thinking about what the next few sections might look like.

So, I asked ChatGPT to suggest an outline for what I needed to include, and had put the response (suitably edited) in as a prompt.

When I came to look at it later I realised that some of the brainwork had been done for me – I simply had to work on the next bit and answer the question on the page.

This is an interesting outcome.

Some people are threatened by AI because they think it will take their jobs away.

The reality is that someone who is good at their job can become even more productive with AI, outperforming others even more.

For example, say you’re a fairly good writer – what impact will AI have on you?

Well, you might think that anyone can write as well as you because they can use a large language model and pump out text.

But so can you.

In fact, what you can do is have the LLM help you write better.

Which means what you create is probably going to be better than what an average writer can do with the AI tool.

In other words the same hammer wielded by a novice is going to have different results than one wielded by an expert.

I think it’s already clear that AI models do not replace you.

One of two things can happen.

You avoid the new technology and become irrelevant – the world moves on.

Or you embrace the technology and do even better than you do now.

Is there really even a choice?

Cheers,

Karthik Suresh