Cosmos

Taking a picture has been accessible for almost 20 years now but not everyone is a good photographer.

Writing a book has been very easy for almost a 50 years now if not a century but not everyone is a great writer.

A similar function, is of the AI, at the present moment. People who know how to do things can increase their productivity many folds yet people who are completely unaware of another filed can do passable stuff.

If I have to edit a photo that is under exposed, I can ask AI to increase the exposure. In order to do so, I have to know what exposure is. The other way to do this can be I simply ask AI to “make the photo better” but AI in its sense does know what better is.

However when such a tool is given to a professional photographer who understands exposure, shadow, highlights, he/she can make the edit much faster that what it used to take him.

Although in the process, we are going to see a churn. A churn which will render most of the population jobless in the transitory period. Similar thing happened at the start of industrial revolution where textile industries of India which were world leaders in producing clothes were left behind and the machines produced clothes at a much efficient rate. (Not excusing the coloism as that played an important role in the de-industrilisarion).

Coming back to the topic, I see many propagating the idea that AI can write all the code and our efficiency can increase 100 folds. The textile revolution has resulted into fast fashion where people buy and wear clothes for only one time. The abundance is such due to their being demand of it in the fashion industry. I do not see such demand in coding space. Regular maintenance and security updation probably can be done using AI but I have to see that to believe it. No company in the world wants to risk unavailability.

We are going to see what happens with AI as it unfolds. There are more questions that remains to be answered. Biggest one being, is there going to be any way where the money invested already in the AI be recovered to make it profitable. When will be the time where cost of AI surpasses the cost of a developer or photographer.

Presently we are enjoying subsidized prices but when the music stops, what would happen?