DISCLAIMER : I did try to generate “THIS” blog post in ChatGPT – lets just say the results were a bit underwhelming – they lacked the emotion, humor, irreverance and general smugness of a know it all human. Like John Connor once said “I won’t give up the fight against Skynet. Not ever.”

For the uninitiated the collective consious of the internet has been wowed, bets have been placed on what AI platform is going to replace just about everything under the sun ( jobs, coding, sex?) – You could use this as a primer to understand whats going on – or maybe skip this wall of text and ask Bing Search Chat – What is microsoft calling it anyway ? (mera blogging career shuru hone se pehle khatam ! )

Did we not see this coming ?
We have been living in an AI world for a while now – remember when Google Search started autocompleting your searches – like a rectangular embodiment of a mansplaining spouse. That was one the first “Aha!” moments for me personally – you see i had just broken up and was really missing someone speaking over me in an annoying high pitched way (does this qualifies as misogynistic?). Next came Youtube & Netflix gently prodding you and “suggesting” content you might like – god forbid you misclicked on a video of a sparsely dressed model.

Netflix in fact took it a step further – Did you know they change the thumbnails on the fly for different users ? – they could show the same title “thumbnailed” (is that even a word – it is now! ) differently to users depending on their learned preferences

And then shit hit the proverbial fan (“you should never start sentences with AND” – the rebel in me could never comply – heres a middle finger 🖕🏽 to the generic schooling pedagogy 🤤). Millions of hours were spent swiping on TikTok – quickly followed by similar hawas ka nanga naach (naked dance of lust – shit sounds better in hindi *shrugs*) on Reels & cloned ad nauseum on every “Social” media app worth its salt. The algorithms on these short form video apps ALREADY know a lot about you – it keeps throwing stuff which would keep you hooked – depending on what topics you linger on. Doesn’t this limit user agency and/or user discoverability ? Its a mobile sized echo chamber which endlessly confirms your biases. What these algorithms are scarily good at is getting a “handle” about the user. You can legit form a mental picture of a users likes and preferences by swiping through their social media feeds. Honestly “Social” media feels like a misnomer these days – there are more people actively stalking and lurking on it than people actually being social!

And in the Blue Corner –
ChatGPT has entered the Chat ? Very Punny. OpenAi now holds the record for gaining a million users in just about 5 days. Its blowing peoples mind – has put an end to overpaid copywriters who pump out generic blogs day in day out. Stuff that Microsoft (owns 49% of ChatGPT) is already doing – AI assisted code writing, integration with Bing Search – the Redmond based Microsoft is also furiously working to integrate generative AI shit into Microsoft Word, Excel AND PowerPoint. Phew.

In the Red Corner –
Google is threatened – a slew of blog posts 1 , 2 and a full on announcement in Paris about how they going to be tackling the rise and rise of Open AI. All that hasnt stopped the stock prices from tanking (probably a good time to buy ? – this isnt investment adivce!).

What’s certain is that a whole lot is about to change about the world. The biggest change is probably coming to traditional education – i’m genuinely jealous of people who are going to be “studying” in Schools and Colleges in the age of AI. It’s going to get even more insane when generative audio and video become the norm – imagine having to explain a complex concept to somebody – now imagine how easy it would be if you could ask an AI to generate a simple “How To” animation – The G-SPOT will be found ! Hold on to your lady parts because it doesnt stop there..

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Until next time – Will there even be a next time – BlogGPT sounds like a good deal tbh ..

People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.

Pedro Domingos

PS. the title image is totally AI generated – thanks DALL-E