The Power of Being an AI Power User

With Open AI’s Chat GPT-4 about to release, I almost feel like an old timer, taking stabs at early versions of Chat GPT and finding it clunky, I’ve stuck with it, for the rapid advancements in AI are alarming, and not going to slow, or stop, ever. Now at a point of being comfortable and using in my daily efforts at Open AI API, Chat GPT, Stable Diffusion, Bing beta, etc. I am concluded a few stark points that are being somewhat seen, but often missed in the evaluation of it:

• There is immense power here, immense potential. People seeking flaws in AI, or trying to trick it, or get it to write biased political nonsense, then complaining about it, are grossly missing the point.
• AI is doubling in capability every six months. Far outpacing Moore’s Law. For those that don’t want to get out the calculator, this means in 5 short years AI will be over 1000 times more powerful, and in a decade, a staggering 1,000,000 times.
• There is also, certainly in creative usage, the ever present maxim of GIGO. The better you are at inputting info, and the better you can edit what it spits out, the better you are going to be with it as a tool, a partner. In fact, I firmly believe this is what will separate power users from casual users in the future, the near future. So if you thought all those years of studying liberal arts, history, photography, design, etc. are going to be wiped away, think again. The same applies across the board to nearly all fields. The greater your knowledge, acumen, effort, the greater your results will be with AI.

I thus see three groups of users on the horizon:

1. Those who dismisses AI at their own peril
2. Those who use AI, and accept its somewhat random results
3. Those who combine their knowledge and skills to get the maximum effective use of AI

Being an expert at the working details of AI is not the same as being a power user in that third group though. If you know how to use a chat feature, you can use AI. Your wits will make you the power user. The need to develop AI apps is not necessary to make extensive, powerful use of AI.

Adapt, or be discarded to the dustbin of history? You tell me.