My AI Love/Hate Relationship
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Confession
I have a confession. I am in a love/hate relationship with artificial intelligence. These feelings aren't new. From the beginning of our tumultuous relationship, I've had mixed emotions about AI. (I call artificial intelligence affectionally "AI" apparently many others do as well. You see, AI gets around.)
To make matter's worse, I am afraid, it's only a one-sided relationship. I really don't think AI cares about me or even thinks about me at all. I mean like never.
But I think about AI, I think about AI a lot.
As you know, a love/hate relationship is one where the individuals in the relationship vacillate between loving each other passionately and hating each other just as passionately. I'm in that type of relationship.
I am not an artist, so I love the fact that AI can quickly and effortlessly create an image, a picture, a drawing of what I need for an article or course I am developing (the image for this article was created by AI). For that I love AI. It has made some of my visions and ideas for images come to life almost immediately.
But, I hate the fact that AI, through its training, steals from established artists who have honed their craft over decades and are missing out on opportunities, money, royalties. The same goes for my friends and colleagues in the voice over arena. AI is literally starting to steal jobs from some of my most creative friends. Will it steal my writings, will we need articles by Karl Kapp on gamification if AI can write them in seconds? For that I hate AI.
As a writer who has added many articles and essays online to the internet for the purpose of educating others, I am appalled that my content has been used without my permission, consent or any kind of payment or royalty. It's unfair, unethical, and is frustrating.
On the other hand, the ability to quickly create an outline, rough draft of an essay, comparison table, or ten distractors for a multiple choice question is almost magical. It allows me to about double my productivity in certain areas.
But AI is not perfect, I usually hate eight of the distractors AI generates. But, I build on the two I do like. I modify them and I am good to go. It provides a good foundation. Thanks AI.
AI is also fun, we have a good time together. AI has helped me to create fun tic-tac-toe games, to speak different languages, and has even does a fairly good impersonation of me as you can see from this video.
But AI, also goes out and does unsavory things. AI has created inappropriate images of pop-star Taylor Swift and others, lied to the elderly about the whereabouts of their grandkids to extort money, and even lies about simple things like article and journal citations. AI can't be trusted.
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Another thing, AI seems real but it's not that authentic. It lies to me but calls it a hallucination. You're not hallucinating, you are lying.
And AI eats like a pig.
It's downright uncaring about its consumption of energy and unapologetic about polluting human's environment. In fact, it's been written up several times for its almost unceasing energy consumption. MIT Technology Review states that "generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car." Every AI inquiry is damaging to the planet and uses far more energy than any other computing. AI has to do better.
But AI also has helped me condense a ton of data and writing into easily digestible summary paragraphs. It has helped me to create animated instructional videos and opened up new possibilities for the creation of personalized instruction. Many of those things are good and helpful.
AI is disrupting copyright law, it's output can't be copyrighted so what does that mean? And why does AI take my stuff from the web without copyright permission to, in turn, create derivations or, in some cases-I'm looking at you New York Times-exact copies of content. AI is not being fair.
But AI does take a PDF I feed it and summarize it nicely--I think. AI tries to do good but, I don't know. Is it really magical or just a bunch of parlor tricks? Do I even care?
Will AI come for my job, my friend's job, my student's potential jobs? It just might or maybe it can't really, maybe AI is overhyped by the tech sector---but they are bleeding jobs, is that because of AI? Is AI coding for us now?
They tell me "this is as bad as AI will ever be" and that "an instructional designer won't be replaced by AI, but an instructional designer using AI will replace one who does not." Perhaps. I don't know if I can trust AI fully but it does and will have an impact on all our careers. And now AI just won't leave me alone, it's in my tools, on my computer, and made it's way to my phone (which I thought was smart but now with AI is it intelligent?)
Bottom-line? I can't live with or without AI. It's truly a love/hate thing. I love what it can do, I hate what it's doing.
How about you? Are you in a love hate relationship with AI, are you more love or more hate? How is it impacting you?
Bio
Karl Kapp is a professor at Commonwealth?University (formerly Bloomsburg University). He works globally helping organizations accelerate expertise using an evidence-based approach. He teaches a graduate course on AI and frequently keynotes on the topic. He is passionate about helping others and thus is the co-founder of the L&D Mentor Academy, a members only group that explores the technology, business acumen and concepts required to take L&D professional's careers to the next level. Apply to Join today.
Additionally, Karl is co-founder of?Enterprise Game Stack, a serious games company that creates digitized card games for learning ranging from interactive role-play games to sorting activities and everything in-between. Find out more at Enterprise Game Stack.
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9 个月Great article Karl! Honestly, I can’t yet fully appreciate the impact AI will have, similarly to the internet’s reach which was difficult to conceptualize at the start. All the intracies of human expression based on novel experience that is communicated with an individual flare can never be fully replicated, because personal stories and descriptions therein are absolutley unique to the individual. There can be cheap knock offs that will serve as tools to simplification and efficiency but the “authentic” lies within the humanity of the “teller” I hope that AI doesn’t diminish us in the way that a calculator has to brain power’s mathematical computing. Time will tell. May we extrapolate the benefits and eschew what dulls the human growth experience.
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1 年Karl Kapp Brilliant and balanced. As an educator I see AI creating mumbo jumbo generic submissions that some students submit as a masquerade to actually getting an education which saddens me because they aren’t getting the education that they deserve. But, on the other hand, as a creator I have used AI on projects, including creating a new logo for my towns land trust where we needed to refresh our brand.
Those are some very well documented thoughts on AI. We think we are all in that type of love/hate relationship with AI. As course developers ourselves, we have experimented with it, to find out that it is not always as intelligent as its name depicts, either in generating images or content. The information it produces is not always accurate and cannot be used at face value. One needs to be knowledgeable first, before trusting AI. One has to use it as a supplementary tool, especially in course development and challenge its output.
You are clearly not alone in your ambivalence, Karl! Trustworthiness remains a massive issue with attempting to gain knowledge from AI. Unless one knows exactly what data a model has been trained on, it is impossible to trust its insights.
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1 年Karl Kapp All of this, but I didn't think about how much energy it used before. Wow. All of that for 20% viable. I should love AI, but it bothers me. I should use it to my advantage, but it feels inauthentic. I should embrace it and ride the wave, but I just want to shake my fist. It's volatile. That's my issue. Like a Ferrari with no speed limit. It expands beyond parameters before we can blink, so how does one reign that in? I don't know what to make of it ultimately, because it is still becoming...and that, itself, is scary.