AI is increasingly able to do may things better than I can. As an example, the audio production that will likely accompany this article will go into more details and drill-down, exploring a range of related issues, and do so better than I would reasonably produce, with the resulting 15-minute AI discussion produced form the article in about 5 minutes.
It still won’t have the underlying knowledge I put into the article, and it would not likely come up with similar article on its own. But given a few hints, it can do a pretty good job. It cannot (yet) develop new knowledge or think through anything, but for existing written works, it can produce pretty good summaries, answer most simple questions (not necessarily correctly, but you couldn’t likely tell the difference).
The resulting gap
Between the best human experts and the best AI generation of the day is where AI will replace people. Which is to say, there will be no apprentice level people to become tomorrow’s experts.
- But then who will read the writing of the real experts? We already have so much junk and so many self-proclaimed experts, so many BS artists and so much AI-generated stuff, and all of this pushed for the lower cost and better monetization of the media companies that increasingly dominate the agenda and the storyline. I bet you cannot even tell the difference between my human writing and the AI rewritten portion of this article, except for the sentence structures and perhaps the punctuation.
- But then, who will read the work of true experts? We're already drowning in junk—selfproclaimed experts, BS artists, and an avalanche of AI-generated content—all driven by media companies chasing lower costs and higher profits while shaping the narrative to their advantage. I’d wager you can’t even distinguish between my human writing and the AI-rewritten parts of this article—aside from slight differences in sentence structure and maybe the punctuation.
Which one did I write, and which one did AI rewrite? And why would you pay me my fees instead of having the AI just do it instead?
The narrative
Storytelling is at the heart of good communication, but facts and evidence and logic are at the heart of good engineering and science. Most folks used to imagine that the logic of computers would force out the human artistry and joy of the world, and that was the general narrative of science fiction.
But the opposite is happening now. The AI is producing the good communication and the human factor comes in the realistic analysis and scientific study. The computers tell a better story than most people, and they do it faster, cleaner, and with more style(s).
Let me tell you all a story
...of a man named Jed. A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed….1 Adding music and an accent helps a lot. And of course AI can generate the songs for you.
Want emotions? Just ask for it.
Want a crime story, just ask for it.
Want a romance novel or Country Western song? Just ask for it (they were formulaic anyway, and you didn’t need modern generative AI to do the writing, but it sure goes faster that way).
WANTED: ORIGINAL HUMAN THINKERS
Are you a writer, a thinker, a dreamer? Do you possess the rare ability to create something new—something that cannot be mimicked, optimized, or auto-generated by an algorithm? If so, we need you.
Once upon a time, the world thrived on fresh ideas, human ingenuity, and voices filled with passion. But now, a silent thief has crept in, replacing creativity with cold efficiency. AIgenerated content floods our screens, polished but soulless, seamless yet empty. The newsrooms have fallen silent. The libraries gather dust. The conversations? Nothing but echoes of data-fed responses.
But somewhere out there, the last real minds still exist. If you are one of them—if you still believe in the power of human expression—we urge you to come forward. Grab your pen, your voice, your untamed ideas. Create something no machine can replicate.
This is a call to arms. A last stand against the slow erasure of originality. A desperate plea to those who refuse to be replaced.
If you are still out there, if you still have a story to tell—prove it.
Apply Within. No Bots Allowed.
Back to the basics
I have been thinking about a new law. It requires all electrical devices to have a means for a human with no substantial effort, to remove all power sources with full effect in 1 second or less. The devices must be fully disabled and non-operative, and while they may retain information, no processing, input, or output is possible. While we’re at it, we should require that a battery replacement can be made in no less than 1 minute to restore function, so we don’t have to keep buying a new phone. Of course newer batteries may last for years without a recharge soon, and people will start to device machines that reconnect each other so even if we take out the battery, another one will be back in before we can blink.
Conclusions
Not good. If we do not find a path out of this, we will have a further divided society, the haves and have-nots with even more have-nots and fewer haves. Of course in this article I have ceded myself to the AI. And the appendices to follow will put it to you differently.
As I slide down the slippery slope to abandoning all hope, I notion a ration of passion and hope. Try to stay smart, don’t break my heart, keep smart afloat, buy a Chris boat! Inside joke
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