I was thinking about starting a new creative project recently. But then I thought - with how quickly AI is advancing, in just a few years an AI will probably be able to do this in just minutes. So it made me feel kind of apathetic and think, “Why should I bother starting this big project now if an AI could do it for me in a few years?”
I’m curious if others feel this way or if the advancement of AI is making people less motivated to start big, creative projects since the work could just be automated by an AI soon anyways. It could increase apathy and make people feel like “why bother?” Am I overthinking this? Does the possibility of AI taking over certain tasks in the future make you less motivated to start projects and learn new skills? Would love to hear others’ thoughts on this!
So far AI is pathetic on ideas for things to do, requirements to fulfill, imagination. It’s really not a factor. Your great idea for your needs is still your great idea.
I see AI mainly as a tool to help implement, like documentation, google, stackoverflow. AI is already good enough to help generate templates or boilerplate, so now is the time to get comfortable with it as a productivity tool. Use your great idea to get yourself up to speed on the new tool
Current AI’s ability to augment coding is no joke. I had ChatGPT (not even the latest one) write me a prosody plugin in Lua for some Jitsi integrations I was working on. It got it almost right, but I had to go in and compare its work with other prosody plugins to see where it went wrong. But see, at that point the only thing I knew about prosody was how to install plugins for it. Now I have a good understanding of how it works and also how it works with Jitsi based mostly on ChatGPT’s code and explanations. This all happened over the course of maybe two hours whereas if I just did it by myself I’d probably be banging my head all day cause prosody’s docs are passable but its documentation with regards to Jitsi’s usage of it is non existent.