This month’s topic is “Reliance on AI is an admission you’re out of control.” There is an enormous amount of buzz and controversy around AI, and everybody seems to be “trying to get there first.” At present, we could say that half of AI is good and the other half is risky—and we’ll explore what that means as we discuss the various topics this month.
Unfortunately, a mindset is being created that we really don’t need to understand subjects or information. We don’t have to use our brains. We can simply use the AI brain. Where is that going to lead us?
The Real Danger
Let’s take an example. A person gets a job as a manager in a restaurant. They don’t have any idea of how a restaurant functions and (worse) how to manage people. Instead of diving in and learning how a successful restaurant works and how staff management is done (perhaps by getting mentored by a successful manager), they query an artificial intelligence application. They then take that information and attempt to use it.
They won’t have that job long. The restaurant where they have become employed doesn’t function like the “restaurant” the AI app informed them about. As far as managing people, they’ve soon upset the entire staff because they’ve learned some management method from AI that has nothing to do with reality.
The Gamble
You can see that this person is actually gambling. The data they obtain from artificial intelligence may or may not be true. Applying that information is just like rolling the dice in a casino.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
The computer industry has an old expression: “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” popularly abbreviated as “GIGO.” If you programmed a computer with worthless data, what you got back would be worthless data.
With AI, this principle can be a lot more subtle. You query an AI application about a topic, and it provides information that may seem logical or true. The problem is that the real answers you’re looking for may or may not have been programmed into that AI application. Therefore, the answers you’re getting may or may not be logical and true.
In our restaurant example above, the AI app that the person queried about management may have been programmed with a principle, for example, of “don’t over-correct people.” Since not all staff are honest in the restaurant, one or two dip into the till and steal small amounts of money. The manager knows it, but doesn’t want to “over correct” and so the restaurant loses money. The honest staff, seeing this, become upset because the manager knows about the issue but isn’t dealing with it.
A Bad Trend
People can be lazy, so it has become a trend for people to query AI instead of putting the work in and researching something themselves to find the correct data.
The end result is that people stop thinking for themselves and count on AI to tell them what to think. How intelligent do you think people will become if they never exercise their mental muscles?
The lesson: We must think for ourselves or be lost.
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