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.