First, is it a question or a concern? If this is a concern to you, you have come to the right place. As we are the so called ‘smartest’ animal on the planet, we tend to move fast towards the innovation of new technology and research. But whenever a major change in the technology comes to existence, and it feels like making home in our life, small kind of rejection is inbuilt in human nature. It happened when Nicolaus Copernicus told “earth is not at the center of universe, we revolve around a star called sun”. Some tried to kill him too, but the truth is always true. The AI is going to stay whether you like it or not. We have to accept and think how we can utilize it towards including new technologies with our daily life. The world is not going to wait until you adopt.
So, this is the thing. Either we have to adapt to the technology that we are building and improve the skills needed to survive where any technology can’t replace you. As all the big minds say “It’s not all about the work, it’s just a skill issue”. We need to do certain things to understand how these AI works and incorporate with your daily works can make your life a lot easier (sometimes). Research about specific technology, it might not be an AI, it can be anything that helps in automate your work, give your efforts to learn it. Be special in what you do and, show that you have something that others don’t. Then you gave no option to not accept you in any area you want to go.
Things that we have to do or should be aware of when it comes to AI are:
- Keep your mind open to try out new things even when whatever you are doing works fine.
- Explore how new technologies can help you in easing out things in your daily routine.
- Aware of the current situation of the area you are working and what it takes to climb the ladder.
- Try to reduce the friction in the work. Either by not procrastinating, or by making use of tools/software that makes your workflow better.
I cannot emphasize the changes when I switched from windows to Linux. It impacted a lot in my personal workflow in speed and efficiency. I am faster than ever before and becoming faster as time goes. I have been trying out new AI models locally through ollama (because I don’t want to pay a lot of money and my data to companies). It has been quite nice to include these AI models in my workflow. We can use it as a code generator inside a code editor like Copilot. It is definitely better than using old Tabnine (now they also integrated with AI) for code completion and generation. Finally, the verdict is simple, ADOPT.
Who knows we might end up like cyberpunk world.