I grew up watching the Jetsons thinking for sure by now I would be flying a car and have a robot maid. While those haven't quiet segued into our daily lives in 2023, AI has. But do we love it or hate it? Is it awesome technology that will help catapult certain industries into the next level or will it minimize the need for certain positions. Do we love the detailed information spit out in a beautiful easy to understand template, or will we miss the personal interaction of knowing a human with real thoughts wrote the message/blog/email you are reading.
I think with anything in life it has its pros and cons. I personally love watching technology progress. I wear a watch everyday that tells me exactly how many calories I've burned, reminds me when I'm being too sedentary and can show me exactly where my daughter is at literally the flick of a wrist. However, it also scares me at times. I swear I can think in my head, "we need diapers" and the first ad I see next is for a diaper delivery service. If I can track my daughter, sadly someone else probably can to, and lets be honest, a thing on my wrist that I normally would have never been able to give myself an exact number of calories, will have me looking wild doing jumping jacks before I get in bed because my total calorie burn was 1,193 and I might as well burn those last 7 calories to get to 1,200. A little crazy to do if you actually think about it but I'm guilty of it on a regular basis.
Full transparency. I typed in "Pros and cons of AI" Into an AI service. Is it weird that I felt guilty asking an AI to tell me its own cons!? Sure enough of the first ones listed were job displacement and lack of human judgement. Which were my initial concerns but it also listed ethical and privacy concerns, reliance on data quality and lack of transparency.
Still I am excited to see how technology helps us become more efficient and save time. I used to think time is money, I would often think, wow I wasted 2 hours in traffic, that was $XX amount of my time (silly I know, but that's where my logical brain used to go) but now I measure time in moments with my children. If I work over time, that was 2 hours and 14 minutes I didn't spend with my children today. This is where I believe AI may really help, at the end of the day it can provide many ways to be more efficient, therefore adding sand back into the hourglass of time with your family, for self care, for other priorities, while simultaneously still providing valuable information in a responsive manner to clients.
I personally am still on the fence, I love the personal interaction I have with clients. I hope my industry always remains a human to human interaction because I got into this industry for my love of helping other people, But as technology progresses we have the choice to fight it or welcome it. How do you feel about AI? Do we love it? Do we hate it? Do we think we are steps away from being Will Smith in IRobot?
Tell me your thoughts below!
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