As I write this, it is August 2023. Artificial Intelligence has captured the world’s attention like no other idea has ever in my living memory. When Open AI launched Chat GPT, it got the fastest 100 million users of any launch in human history.

As a Physician I have been using Chat GPT for various areas of my life, mainly professional.

I find this [Chat GPT] to be an especially useful tool to generate content specific to what I am looking for. For example, in creating Job descriptions. Prompting is important when asking Chat GPT anything, to get accurate results.

Many people have however expressed concern over the expanding role of AI in the workspace. Many jobs are going to be replaced by AI, there is no doubt about that.

Which jobs are likely to remain in the future? Well, nobody really knows, but I have written about it here.

The concern that I have about AI goes something like this:

AI or Artificial Intelligence is the product of data organized out of the logic of preceding and available human intelligence, which has been digitally accessed by immensely powerful processors and computers.

If human intelligence was not available as a reference and foundation, AI would simply not have been able to generate coherent and accurate answers.

Here lies the problem:

I belong to a generation that used our God given intelligence, and created new ideas based on a combination of prior knowledge, intuition, inspiration and many other mysterious ways in which humans work, most of which is not known to science.

This generation also generally understands what correct information is, when we see it.

My generation also generally understands how to differentiate between truth and falsehoods, or at least knows what correct information is when we see it.

As the future unfolds, we are seeing the rise of a generation that will have the following issues:

1. It has grown up depending on AI to provide it with all the answers to life and everything
2. It has not used its own intelligence to create new ideas, products or services
3. It has not used its memory as much as the previous generation and relies on the cloud to store most of the stuff related to their daily lives.

In such a scenario in the future, the generation that comes will be easily brainwashed, can be fed any nonsense that AI produces, and will not really know or have the capacity to discern what is truth and what is fiction, or danger.

These are the problems that I foresee in the future.

Humans are becoming more like machines, and machines are becoming more like humans!

Machines are learning, while humans are depending on AI increasingly.

What do you think will be the problems we as humans face in the future?