Let's Talk About AI

Recently, Seth Godin wrote Productivity, AI and pushback:

Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music.

In the article, Seth connected how AI is increasing productivity and how anything that improves productivity always wins.

Nowadays, large language models (LLMs) have become synonymous with AI, while AI is a broader field. AI has brought a shift in how things are done. Use cases might vary, but it’s helping in ways like quickly summarizing huge knowledge bases to answer questions or, in my case, helping understand the contextual meaning of complex word (or sentence) usage in language and literature in both English and Hindi, which was sometimes not easy to comprehend with simple web search results.

Even if you or I don’t really like “AI in everything”, we can’t deny the fact that AI is here to stay. This doesn’t take away from the fact that AI needs to become ethical, regulated, and environmentally sustainable.