Surely 2023 will be remembered as the year in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) became accessible to any user and was incorporated into the habitual vocabulary of all mortals.
Although it is still impossible to predict what will happen to AI in a year, in a month or perhaps in a week, as Warren Buffett said, what is clear is that "We will not be able to uninvent it."
So we will have to learn to live with this technology effectively, waiting for the positive effects to outweigh the negative ones, which mainly include an alarming impact on a large number of jobs, misinformation resulting from the impossibility of detecting fake news, the impact on learning processes and possible war applications, among other points.
At different levels, as people we will have to find strategies to add value to our human experience taking into account the points that at least today cannot be replicated. Capturing these differential points in our strategy will make the difference between staying relevant or being a memory.
AI has no purpose of its own, no will, no creativity, no initiative. That spirit that mobilizes us and that allows us to have critical thinking and the possibility of adapting our way of being has not yet been replicated. The same can be said of the generation of new ideas.
The AI for now cannot emulate social skills such as the ability to listen to a speaker and understand what they feel and think or generate rapport. The same happens with the ability to understand a context or interpret tacit elements present in a human interaction.
Finally, and although it may seem counterfactual, it is necessary to have know-how and different basic knowledge prior to interacting with an AI in order to have an accurate result on specific topics.
On these pillars of humanity we will have to build our new position in the face of a world in which challenges are multiplying. We can do it.
