AI: Curse or Blessing?
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
When AI was originally developed, it was formulated to optimize the completion of certain tasks. Over the years following its creation, it has improved monumentally, especially in the most recent years, as of now. Recently, we have seen AI do outstanding things such as creating realistic videos and images, and making pivotal scientific and medical discoveries. Something that always interested me about this was how humans can create something that can discover and know more than us. And does this mean, hypothetically, that it can do and know things greater than what we tell it to do?
Though this is not necessarily true, there is something that most certainly is. AI has gotten to the point where it has the ability to replace human creativity. Personally, this idea is one that doesn’t sit well with me. Looking to the future, AI will be the perfect tool and assistant to accomplishing things. However, the human nature and imagination that is behind everything around us is a treasure that cannot be taken away. Because taking away human nature and struggling, also removes the sense of accomplishment, and how special it is when we do something great. This is true because we realize how many hardships and struggles that we face when trying to do something no one has before.
There is one thing, however, that we have as humans, that no sort of artificial intelligence will ever replace. That one thing is simply our emotion. When we see something, smell something, hear something, it triggers something in us that no one can describe. We gain inspiration through fear, anger, despair, enthusiasm. Every innovation we make comes from our imagination and resilience. I know this is the case for certain, especially with this website itself. Whether it’s music, movies, inventions, or anything else, it first came from a dream.
Like the Pablo Picasso quote states, we destroy things in creating them. But, what we cannot destroy is what makes us human. AI was created to remove struggle from the process of creating things. However, we’ve learned that if you change the work, you change the outcome. If you put in less work and hardship, things don’t feel as great or accomplished. That is where Epicureanism and Stoicism balance. The absence of pain doesn’t create a better life, it makes things feel not as good when they are rare. The value of creation isn’t just in the result, but in the effort and originality behind it. Thank you for reading Social Science 43, and have a spectacular day.
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