Now, Experts Are Warning Revolutionary AI Tools Change Everything – RedState
The advent of artificial intelligence is shaking many cages. Believe me, I should know; two of our four daughters are independent commercial graphic designers, and they worry (rightly) about being underbid and driven out of the market by computers. As for me, I’m not too worried: what computer could one day match my inimitable style, my wit, my wisdom, not to mention my modesty?
However, new AI tools are now coming online, and some tech types warn that these could change a lot of things.
The future is here.
Over the past month, a handful of new AI tools have pushed the technology beyond 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 moment when AI stopped being a tool he guided and began completing complex, multi-day projects entirely on its own — and warned that disruption would soon shape every profession.
Well, the future is still there; we’re catching up at the rate of an hour per hour, so it’s a somewhat absurd statement. But it seems to me that these new tools, as elegant as they are, 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 everyone in tech’s conversations and happy hours.
Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic, arguably the two most important AI labs, each released new models on Feb. 5 so powerful that some in the tech field believe they may already eliminate white-collar jobs like administrative assistants and junior bankers.
I would like to have more details on this, especially regarding administrative assistants. These are people whose main goal is to deal with other people, make appointments, organize meetings, and keep details straight. Can an AI negotiate with a human? Showing tact in doing this? Color me skeptical.
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Here is the onion:
“We will be a nation of robots,” predicts John Borthwick, founder of Betaworks, the venture capital fund that backed Tumblr and Giphy. “In the future, everyone will have multiple specialized agents rather than relying on a single general-purpose AI. »
Matthias Luebken, former chief product officer of a cloud management platform, left his corporate role earlier this year to launch a knowledge retention platform aimed at retirees called Tavon AI. He built the entire company with agents specialized in AI: one takes care of human resources, another of sales, the other of marketing. “I really feel like I’m an assistant,” he told me. “None of this I could have done six months ago.”
Maybe. But in my opinion, such tools will remain limited in dealing with humans, who, most often, do not even know what they themselves think about a given object, task or question. This, in my opinion, is what will limit AI for some time to come; actually, it’s one of two things. The first is, as I said, human interaction. Nothing can replace that; an AI has no sense of priority except what is inflexibly coded. An AI has no intuition. An AI has no judgment. And above all, an AI has no empathy, no ability to put itself in another’s place, to understand their point of view.
The second is, as I said, creativity. An AI can only remix what it has been given; at least, for the moment, no computer, no robot can create something from scratch. Certainly, given the reworked, refurbished, bent, crushed, and mangled stuff coming out of Hollywood these days, it would seem that these people can’t create either.
Artificial intelligence will likely remain a valuable tool. Yes, it will change things, just as the automobile radically changed the world for those who grew up with horses, and just as the airplane changed things for those who were used to being on the ground. The only constant in the world is change, and no matter what AI can do, it’s a bit of toothpaste that doesn’t go back into the tube. We’ll just have to learn to live with it – and use it to our advantage.
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