The Reality of AI | Pt.14 | AI is already playing a massive part in our digital lives.

The AI or Artificial Intelligence that we are focusing on now comes in the overt form of chat bots, work reduction tools and alternatives to the established forms of Search Engines that are springing up everywhere.

They are being discussed in the media in a way that suggests that they have always been here.

However, in this precise form, AI has only been available to us for open use for a matter of weeks or months*.

It is important to understand that anything on a device, on an app or online that does your job for you, completes a task for you, provides a price for you, creates something for you, adjusts something for you, checks something for you or translates something for you, is almost certain to be using a form of AI – to which all Rules, Realities and Actions apply.

AI, in the form of algorithms, has already been in use for a long period of time.

AI is established or being extensively trialed on:

• Apps
• Dating Websites
• CCTV
• Insurance Company Websites
• Money Saving Websites
• Search Engines
• Smartphones
• Smart Speakers
• Smartwatches
• Social Media
• Supermarket and Retailer Reward Card Systems
• Recruitment Websites and the Software that Recruitment Agencies use.
• Remotely accessible doorbells and CCTV
• Translation Software
• Websites where you buy anything or have to enter ANY data about yourself

And the latest information available as I write, suggests that Chat Bots and their functionality will soon be inserted into the instant messaging and direct messaging services that so many of us already use throughout the day too.

The list will grow every day until those benefiting from the roll-out of AI are either stopped or redirected to go in a different way.

Software, programmes or coding of any kind that enable a phone, watch, tablet, laptop, computer, TV, smart speaker or anything else that apparently makes a task easier for us or reduces the effort that either we or any other person makes, is relying on what we understand the general meaning of AI or Artificial Intelligence to be today.

However, the generational differences between the types and specific functions of AI do not matter.

Without any further thinking, have accepted that the ascent and take-over of AI in these ‘new’ but already ‘established’ forms has already taken place, and that even the dangers that the true pioneers of this software development are warning us of are already inevitable – because that’s the way that it goes.

‘It’s just the way that it goes’, can only be assured by our collective acceptance of AI’s use, and with it our unwillingness to reject or object to its further use and takeover of so many parts of life. Not because the use of any form of AI is necessary or beneficial in some way to mankind. But because somebody somewhere will benefit massively if we unwittingly help them to make sure that it does.

*This page was originally written in early June 2023.