The Unopened Can
Written by John Ink2Quill
www.ink2quill.com

The A.I. Revolution is well underway and advancing at dizzying speeds. It seems that every tech company wants their own A.I. jinni to speed things along for the user, to make repetitive tasks and tasks you don’t want to spend too much brain power on effortless. Yes because some think we purge any kind of effort from our lives. (I say that’s bull). Technology’s first objective or promise seems to be to make things easier for the organic intelligences that wield it. A better promise by technology would be to take redundant tasks and complex tasks off our shoulders so would could reach for other goals, higher objectives. That’s a positive spin for the uses of these tools of ours.

So what does accessibility to A.I. mean for the individual? What will be expected of us in the workplace and in our private lives? We are already expected to use A.I. in the workplace. So picture a situation where most of a project is done by A.I. and algorithms. How is that going to be? In such cases your employer can lay claim to entire projects including your work if they own the A.I. This doesn’t sound so bad if you consider maybe accounting projects but what about creative ones. What if someone were a writer or artist on a film project? How much credit and ownership can they claim? Those are tricky questions that need answers.

So many questions with regards to this new powerful and incredibly useful technology need to be answered. This is an undiscovered country, to borrow a quote from the Bard, because of the change and the passing away of old ways of doing things. I’ve already started to use different A.I. but I am shocked at how much other companies I deal with online want me to use their A.I. They call them apps but they’re simply A.I. that do much of the busy work on projects.

The big leap isn’t to use A.I. but to publish or sell or claim ownership of what you have created with A.I. That is a tricky question because it often deals with sources and works which A.I. has pulled from all over the entire internet or Webverse. If a project was done with the help of A.I. who used various sources that are copyrighted or owned by a other parties then all parties who contributed have to be tracked down and talk things out. Otherwise you could run into the problem of breaking laws and theft of a person’s or company’s property. And nobody wants that.

So the big leap forward, the unopened can so to speak, with this kind of technology would be to make the process of use and creation with A.I. more streamlined. We need to make publishing and content creation risk free from inadvertent theft or copyright violations. That is the can we have yet to open so to speak, the next step forward to make this technology available to everyone. It’s fantastic technology when used ethically and it should not hinder or replace in the least the creative processes while remaining accessible to everyone. That is the can that has not yet been opened.

As you can see I’m a big fan of opening that unopened can.

Written by John Ink2Quill

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