The Crisis of Intelligence 🧠
A comic about our existential crisis with AI
Hey friends 👋
I’m trying something new this week, and I probably won’t do this often (unless you really like it).
I’ve had this short comic in my head for a while and finally decided to make it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.
I’ll be back with my usual format next week.
– Fawzi
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I’m a firm believer that AI, when used correctly, will become the magic wand we always needed. It feels scary to give up control of things we’re used to doing, but that doesn’t need to be a bad thing. Combining AI’s strengths with our own can create more value than we can imagine. We just need to be open and curious to explore these opportunities in our daily life.
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Love the comic strip.
Well said
However, I firmly believe that we desperately need strict guide rails for development and we need it urgently.
I was thinking about AI before I read this post and it seemed to me that tools like ChatGPT were much more useful for revision than for anything else, especially for people who are unconfident in their writing skills. In fact, it manages the kinds of values programs such as the Engineering Communication Program have advocated for years: concision, syntactical efficiency, quick readability. If anything, it seemed to me to be the logical consequence of everything such programs were trying to teach. Does it make these programs redundant now? Maybe. I mean, you still have to be very careful with the tool to make sure that as it revises, it does not change the emphasis you intended in the first place (I noticed when a friend showed me the revision it had done to what he wrote, that the slight changes it made created a quite different message than the one I discerned in his messy original). Therein lies the kind of shift you implied in your post - the messy "original." The human part of communication can never be replaced by AI, but it has to be remembered that in some communication, especially such engineering documents as "instructions for use" we hardly want the "messy human," but rather the kind of absolute clarity that prevents mistakes. So, the tool will have its very useful place, but will also show us the importance of reinforcing humanness, humanity in certain situations where the robotic conformity to standard is not what is required.