Dear reader from the future,
I am writing from a time when AI tools are like mushrooms. I’m not sure if they are something you really need or want, but you can find them anywhere and everywhere. Thinking about it now, I can imagine them as ubiquitous as mobile phones. However, some of my peers don’t see AI tools as tools we can use daily. Some even detest the idea of AI, like a contagious disease.
But then, aren’t AI tools like a contagious disease? It’s just a matter of when you’ll catch them. I want to think that the adoption of this new tech is just like any other tech that has come before. There are early adopters, and there are people who would eventually adopt it because the force is too strong for them not to.
I think I sit in the middle. This is primarily because I can access some free AI tools, which allow me to experiment and give me a space to really think about what I think about them.
And you know what? I’ve been taking advantage of my limited access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet (by Anthropic) and GPT-4o Mini (by Open AI) by using them to assist me with my thoughts. Because sometimes, my thoughts are out of order here and there, and I need someone to talk to so I can make sense of them. I prefer Claude 3.5 Sonnet these days, although I shift to GPT-4o Mini once my free credits are all used up.
So far, I am really enjoying the experience of collaborating with a machine. It empowers me to do more, and with confidence, now that I have an assistant who can access a trove of knowledge beyond what my mind could handle.
But of course, I still use them cautiously because I recognize that they are not perfect either. Still, working with these AI tools makes me feel like I always have somebody who will understand me and can help me make sense of the part of my world.
However, sometimes I wonder if I am starting to write and talk like an AI would. Because when I checked my work online (particularly this blog post) to see how it would appear when checked against AI use, my work was tagged as AI-written even when I wrote it in my own words. And then after a little desktop research, I learned that our writings could be mistaken as AI-generated if they are straightforward and sound boring and monotonous.
You know, these tools sometimes make me doubt my humanity.
Of course, I would keep using them because I believe they are not going anywhere in the future. And perhaps, all these concerns I have today are already irrelevant in your time.
Your letter writer from the past,
Jessa
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