AI is the new Internet

I am fascinated by this comparison.

When the Internet was created (Google tells me in 1983) people were no doubt skeptical and hesitant, but also excited by the potential of it… basically what AI is now, right?

I stumbled upon this Thread by Chris Adame which stated "Ignoring AI today is like rejecting the internet in 1995".

Well that's bold.

But is it? What if he is bang on the money here? What if AI becomes so big, so normal, that it's basically what the Internet has become today.

It's a fascinating thought and when I think of it, do you know what the main thing is? To embrace it.

What if in the 1980's the majority of the population didn't embrace the Internet because they were hesitant to, like many are with AI, but the people that did, got so far ahead of the mark it wasn't even funny.

What if that is the opportunity we are currently faced with and currently have to decide on?

When you really think about it, why shouldn't we embrace it? Yes it's scary already in terms of its power and intelligence, but if you put aside those thoughts of robots taking over and killing us all then the power of AI is really quite cool.

My hesitance to use AI doesn't come from those thoughts of robots taking over, mine comes from a weird guilt of thinking of it as cheating.

I work in the creative industry so using AI feels like you're cheating a little.

It does things for you in 5 seconds that you used to do in half an hour with a skillset you built up over time (eg Photoshop).

It can write an article for you, as opposed to you doing it all yourself.

But is this basically like saying, "no I will not use Google Maps, I will use a physical maps instead."?

AI is a new resource available to us now, just like the Internet was in the 1980's - 1990's.

It is there to help us so maybe it is time that I, and you, properly embrace it and get ahead of others in our industry.