THE ACCURACY OF AI AND BEAUTY OF HUMAN ERROR

Battle between man and machine

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My 20-year-old son, who uses astrology a lot, suddenly turned to me one day and said that an Al (Artificial Intelligence) based reading he had received regarding his life blew his mind away.

Till then, he was one of the most dissatisfied individuals in his dealings with local astrologers and their predictions.

I have had my experiences using Al as a tool. What it offers me has been thought provoking, more than being helpful. I say this especially from the perspective that I am a career journalist. We scribes have been warned that very soon Al based 'workstations'would wipe out this breed of hardcore journalists!

The world had its initial experiences of Al in Antiquity. Al was spoken about in workshops in the mid-1950s. My dad, who is dead and gone now, would have been in his teens when this happened. But life rolled on and men worked hard even back then. That was possibly because of people like my dad who believed in one main work philosophy which was 'get the system right at your workplace because then you don't have to sweat much, especially if you are the boss'. But he had another second work philosophy; don't delegate a piece of work if it's absolutely important, because then you must do it yourself.

His grandson (my son) is an Al user. He belongs to a generation which doesn't feel deeply about retaining individual traits and would gladly allow a machine to take over human work.

Chatbots and Large Language Models

Very soon, he is going to give me a lecture that wonders can be achieved with Al. This is because we can see that artificial beings are endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen.