Saturday, January 28, 2023
Started writing as a leisure activity during the pandemic and here I am, one short of a century. Over the course of time I didn’t realize I was cultivating a habit. A good habit per se. Over this brief period of writing a blog, I have come to realize one thing that the wannabe blog writers don’t know about writing: It’s not writing that is the hard part. The hard part is sitting down to write. It’s not our inability to express emotions into words. It’s the resistance that stops us from reflecting on our own thoughts. In fact, that’s true for everything new you set out to conquer. If the force of resistance suppresses the force of motivation, the act of learning suffers. Even though I am one short of a century, I don’t have a high regard for the writer in myself yet. Being on the mailing list of hundreds of blogs out there and the way they play with words, I think I am a galaxy away from being a good writer. A big thanks to everyone who helped me in taking singles and doubles and kept cheering from the other end while I was smashing sixes, some of them, out of the park.
Have you ever looked at an old picture of yourself and felt nostalgic at that very moment? I wonder what it is about them that makes us feel so nostalgic. What is it about that frozen moment in time which makes us drop everything and takes us through the gateway of imagination all the way back to that moment?.
Since the launch of ChatGPT, there have been a lot of people scaremongering about how most of us would be losing jobs to our AI friend. Numerous threads have been written on twitter regarding how the AI bot, even in this nascent stage, is already capable of doing what they do for a living. You can find one such fine article here.
But the question is - Will AI take our job?
I wrote about this 2 years ago and I have the same stance today - Naval Ravikant pointed out in The Joe Rogan podcast that AI fears are overblown. There's no solution to this no problem. Automation has existed since the dawn of civilization. Automation actually allows people to engage themselves in more creative tasks. Eventually every non creative task will be replaced by a robot. Because robots (as of now and not until 2-3 decades) are not capable of creative thinking. They are only good at stuff that we already know and execute it efficiently from 9 to 5. The only thing is how well are you able to retrain and re educate your people about the new things to explore. It all depends on how quickly we are able to create new jobs. If I had told you 5-8 years ago that podcasts could be a real job or playing games could be a job, streaming games could be a job or commentating on a game could be a job, you would have just laughed at me declaring me a psycho. But that's what it is today! People playing games on a youtube stream are earning 4x the money a shop owner would ever make in his entire life.See you next Saturday, have a great weekend :)
Cheers!
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