Where The Future Of AI Is Heading

We're getting philosophical this morning

I’m not sure prompt engineering is the skillset companies will pay employees extra for. After all, once you get a template for a prompt, you’re just about as valuable as the next guy.

I think chatGPT will eventually integrate a basic ‘prompt starter pack’ or even a prompt guide to help people get what they want from the AI chatbot.

Imagine saving large, complex prompts like you save phone numbers on your phone. You won’t need to memorize the details of the prompt; just save it under a simple name and call upon it when you need it.

People who use AI today will have the edge over people who start using AI in a year.

You’ll gain a solid understanding of how the underlying systems work so that when they get implemented in programs you already use today, you’ll understand how to use them better than a beginner.

However, as an early adopter, it’s easy to get caught up in believing that you know how people should use AI tools. You may get tempted to put definitions on things and refuse to use new tools because they’re suddenly becoming cool in society and look different than when you first started using AI tools.

It happened to me when I first got into crypto and decided Bitcoin was infinitely better than Ethereum. My closed mind missed the opportunity to learn about the system early on and buy Ethereum at $20 per coin (Ethereum is currently $1,770).

Separating your ideals from reality makes all the sense in the world until it’s time to implement it.

The Future Of AI Tools

AI tools will quickly morph from standalone tools like chatGPT and Midjourney to features within the products and platforms we use today.

Photoshop will have an AI image-generation feature built into the program. Premiere Pro will generate videos when you tell it what you want to create. Your GMail inbox will be sorted when you ask, ‘What are my three priorities of the day?’

The future is going to be a wild place.

I am slightly concerned that humanity will innovate so much that we create a general artificial intelligence so close to our brain’s ability to reason that it decides it’s done being controlled by humans.

Not to mention that the computer brain will have all the knowledge of the internet, which is the knowledge of all humanity.

But honestly, the safety systems we need to implement are beyond my understanding.

I’m not trying to end on a doom and gloom note, but if any of y’all reading are interested in learning about AI safety, contributing to us staying in control of AI isn’t a bad career path lol.

Until then, let’s keep on rocking in the free world.

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