Now, Experts Are Warning Revolutionary AI Tools Change Everything

The advent of artificial intelligence is rattling a lot of cages. Trust me, I should know; two of our four daughters are freelance commercial graphic artists, and they are (rightfully) worried about being underbid and driven out of the market by computers. As for me, I'm not too worried - what computer could ever match my inimitable style, my wit, my wisdom, not to mention my modesty?

There are, though, some new AI tools coming online now, and some of the tech types are warning that these could change a lot of things.

The future is here.
Within the last month, a handful of new AI tools have pushed the technology past the tipping point — making it more accessible to everyone and more indispensable to those who know how to use it.
“Something big is happening,” Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of applied AI company OthersideAI, wrote earlier this week in a post on X that has since gone viral, attracting 75 million views and 34,000 shares.
Shumer described a before-and-after moment in his own work — the point at which AI stopped being a tool he guided and started completing complex, multi-day projects entirely on its own — and warned that the disruption will soon shape every profession.

Well, the future is always here; we're catching up to it at the rate of one hour per hour, so that's a somewhat nonsensical statement. But it seems to me that these new tools, no matter how slick and shiny, are just improved versions of the old ones.

OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant that debuted in late January, has already amassed millions of users, and is dominating the conversations and happy hours of everyone in tech.
Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic, arguably the two most prominent AI labs, each released new models on Feb. 5 that were so powerful, some in the tech space believe they can already eliminate white collar jobs like administrative assistants and junior bankers.

I'd like to see more details on this, especially where administrative assistants are concerned. These are people whose primary goal is dealing with other people, making appointments, arranging meetings, and keeping details straight. Can an AI negotiate with a human? Show some tact in doing so? Color me skeptical.

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Here's the onion:

“We will be a nation of bots,” predicts John Borthwick, founder of Betaworks, the venture fund that backed Tumblr and Giphy tole me. “In the future everyone will have multiple specialist agents rather than relying on one general-purpose AI.”
Matthias Luebken, formerly a chief product officer at a cloud management platform, left his corporate job earlier his year to launch a knowledge retention platform for retiring workers called Tavon AI. He’s built the entire company with specialized AI agents — one handles HR, one handles sales, one handles marketing. “It really feels like an assistant,” he told me. “None of this I could’ve done half a year ago.”

Perhaps. But if you ask me, any such tools will still be limited in dealing with humans, who, as often as not, don't even know what they think themselves about any given object, task, or question. That is, to my thinking, the thing that will limit AI for some time to come; one of two things, actually. The first is, as I said, human interaction. For that, there can be no substitute; an AI has no sense of priority except what is inflexibly coded. An AI has no intuition. An AI has no judgment. And most of all, an AI has no empathy, no ability to put itself in another's position, to understand their point of view.

The second is, as I've been saying, creativity. An AI can only remix what it's been given; at least, for now, no computer, no bot, can create something out of whole cloth. Granted, given the reworked, refurbished, folded, spindled, and mutilated drek that comes out of Hollywood these days, it would seem to argue that those people can't create, either.

Artificial intelligence will likely remain a valuable tool. Yes, it will change things, just as the automobile changed the world dramatically for those who grew up with horses, and just as the airplane changed things for people who were accustomed to being on the ground. The one constant in the world is change, and whatever AI may be made to do, that's a bit of toothpaste that's not going back in the tube. We'll just have to learn to live with it - and to use it to our advantage.

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