If AI is the answer, what is the question?

It's the March of 2023; the seasons are changing, and so is the world.?

The distant dream of AI-enabled offices and robots assisting humans is no longer a futuristic vision. The GPTs and the Bards are slowly taking over.?

Taking over what? No one knows for sure.?

Half of the human population is worried about their jobs getting replaced by AI, and the other half is cashing in on this newly found way to interact with the bots.

It's frightening and exciting at the same time.

If humans could communicate with aliens, this is the closest it would look like. Well, there's another chunk of humans as well, the ones going for their day jobs, oblivious to the fact that humans have found fictitious partners to accompany them in their glass buildings.?

But what are we going to do with this newfound power??

If AI is the answer, what is the question??

Think about ChatGPT and the enormous power it beholds to answer anything and everything in the world (and beyond). You could ask it to act like God and answer the most complex questions about human existence, and surprisingly, it appears to have an answer.?

But how do humans know how to make use of this new toy we're all provided access to??

Let's go back in time. Henry Ford's infamous quote, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses," changed the world as we know it today.?

In March 2023, the question isn't about horses anymore. If you ask people what they want to do with AI, they would say "better grades" or "faster processes at organizations," and our answers would include the endless list of wonders we're uncovering every day through AI.?

We don't need a Henry Ford today to invent the machine that takes us from Place A to B without pulling the saddles.?

Thanks to the decentralization of tech, we all have the same level of power to create and invent something new. The wonders of AI that are exciting us all today will make us laugh at our naivety tomorrow.?

It's the beginning of a new era.?

The question about whether AI will replace jobs is too childish a question to ponder about. Instead, the question should be, "where is the human race going, now that we have AI to handle the tasks we anyways never enjoyed doing?"

And if we start looking at this season of change with a perspective of human evolution and a pinch of optimism, the questions we ask AI might change.?