What are AI tools better at than humans?

This is a charged topic but we can still talk about it.

Whatever you call them - machines, computers, AI tools, etc. they are better at some things than we are.

If you are worried about AI “taking your job” and your job consists of 100% of things on this list, you might be onto something. Take the time now to broaden your skill-set. Ironically you can use AI tools to do that.

Here are some things that I believe that AI tools do better than humans today -

Read/Scan information

You can use ChatGPT today and scan a 500-page document/book in less than 1 minute (probably less than 10 seconds). I don’t care how fast you read, you aren’t going to go through something that fast. Not even close

Recognize patterns

As good as the human brain is at recognizing patterns, we lose here, too. It comes down to speed and accuracy. Machines can just do this way faster.
This includes image recognition, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, etc.

Store data

The amount of memory (storage space, really) available to AI tools easily surpasses even the best human minds.

Recall data

Besides storing more data, machines can retrieve that data at lightning speed. And in massive quantities

Lack emotion

This is a weird one because it is a positive and a negative
On the positive side, AI tools can make decisions based purely on data and logic. There is no influence from emotions (i.e., fear, insecurity, etc.)
(The negative side for machines will be in the next post)

Lack biological limitations

Computers don’t have the physical and cognitive issues that humans have (including limitations, deficiencies, decline, etc.)
And they don’t get tired (they can overheat, though, but that’s not the same)

Learn from data

This goes hand in hand with reading information quickly. AI tools can “learn” from all that information at the same rate.
We can’t compete (at least not in the same way).

All is not lost. I’ll talk about what I think that we do better in the next post. Stay tuned.

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