A Window of Time-Creating Your Legacy
Friends, it’s time to make your mark. Whether you’re awriter or illustrator, the next four years are crucial to our collectivesuccess. We all know that artificial intelligence can write essays, and drawcute pictures. We also know it is continuously feeding from the artists oftoday, and yesterday. Simply put, it’s growing like a fungus—sort ofballooning. It solves problems, makes deductions, and has even shown reasoningcapabilities. But yesterday, from the television in the other room, I overheardfamous scientific researcher Sir Demis Hassabis explain something that madegoosebumps run up and down my spine. After a bit of checking, I realized thesource is excellent. He gave me hope. Not just for myself, but for all mycreative friends. The ones who draw, or write songs, and tender poets hidingbehind figurative, but enormous brick walls.
Besides being an AI researcher and CEO of DeepMind, Hassabiswas also awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. This brilliant man saidsomething hopeful, that made me run to pen and paper. Something all my artisticfriends need to know. Basically, here’s the kicker. He told the interviewerthat artificial intelligence won’t have intuition and imaginationfor five years, or so. Though I believe what he said, I think it will be lessthan five years. Either way, if you, my imaginative friends have something youwant to express, something you believe in, something the world needs to hear,this is your time. Don’t wait five years. (Of course, I’m good at giving advice--findme in five years.) In five years, everything will change.
Meanwhile, Microsoft came up with a list of forty jobs thatartificial intelligence can’t take away from humans. The list is called --Bottom40 Occupations with lowest AI applicability score. Roofers, painters, andembalmers seem to be safe, along with Massage Therapists, Ship Engineers and OphthalmicMedical Technicians Even dentists, and dishwashers. But we all know there’sanother list. The painful list which is called the Top 40 occupations with highestAI applicability scores. Of course, writers, reporters, editors, proofreaders,and historians were high on the list. My old occupation of Advertising ismentioned too. Intuition tells me thatthe window is narrow, and we must create something lasting, now. Yes, liketoday!
Think escape room with a timer. The clock is ticking andyour heart has ideas. There are fables only you can imagine. There are medicalresearch papers only you can explain. And, once you have invented, patented, published,or copyrighted your creation, and are somewhat depleted, but thrilled you tookthe leap; only then, begin a plan for an entirely new future. One that’s safe,perhaps on a cruise vessel…as the ship’s engineer.
