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The answer to that question is ... Maybe.
John Adams couldn't have imagined the confounding new reality of AI from his pre-Revolutionary vantage point, Yet, a few lines he wrote during those years seem to reach forward and place AI in a useful context:
John Adams couldn't have imagined the confounding new reality of AI from his pre-Revolutionary vantage point, Yet, a few lines he wrote during those years seem to reach forward and place AI in a useful context:
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge.
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write."
Adams was concerned about how the Stamp Act, a British tax imposed on certain colonial documents, was "battering down the Rights and Liberties of America" and urged people to think, write and talk about it. Today, we are thinking, writing and talking about AI, which for all the world seems as if it's about to overwhelm us unless those responsible for its creation take more care in disseminating this potentially destructive new genie in a bottle than seems clear at the moment. For all the good artificial intelligence may promise, the flip side of this invasive new reality is that it's no longer possible for the casual observer to tell whether something they see or hear online is genuine--and that is frightening. At the very least, AI seems to be trading off factual accuracy for speed while undermining personal self-expression and making us (even more) intellectually lazy--all at the same time!
That may be OK for some but not for me, as a writer--and perhaps not for you and others like you who prefer having your books, stories, memoirs, essays, articles & etc. filled with personally curated information written in a way that sounds like you instead of everybody else! Employ this fingertip ready new tool with a blind eye and ear, I would think, and you risk paying what amounts to a kind of "intelligence tax" on creative expression.
There is no substitute for thoughtful, personalized writing that captures the heart and voice of individual experience. Dare to read, think and write, yes--and even include a smattering of AI-based research if improves your work, but with John Adams' Rights and Liberties and your own unique writing voice firmly in hand.
- Brian Faulkner
"Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors ...
in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing
and not a curse to mankind."
- Albert Einstein, 1931 -
"Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors ...
in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing
and not a curse to mankind."
- Albert Einstein, 1931 -
