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Approximately 39 percent of my time spent in education and in publishing goes to my being my own tech support.
Okay, that’s a made-up number. Most weeks it’s significantly less than that, but those weeks when I feel like I’m constantly making fixes to this, solving a font issue for that or getting an outdated computer going long enough to rescue a few useful files – well, those weeks make me feel like it’s me who’s getting a bit old.
But I can’t deny that working my way through a problem with technology gives me a thrill. And having other people think I know something about computers feels, well, nice.
Never mind that I can’t find my way around several of the games on my kids’ gaming console, and forget the fact that my last round of office tech repairs – figuring out how to turn the email function back on for the copier – took me two months. Still, in the right moment, I can shine for a minute or two.
Perhaps soon my skills as an amateur computer applications helper-outer will be obsolete. I can’t imagine that folks are pumping all of this money into artificial intelligence without there being a real possibility that AI will be our future tech support medium.
Artificial intelligence is intriguing and, I must admit, a bit frightening to me. My professional life has been dedicated to the written word, both as an English teacher and as a newspaper publisher. But it’s the task of writing that seems to be one of AI’s early targets.
People just don’t enjoy writing for the most part, preferring it only slightly to speaking in public. I like to write, but the fact that most people do not has given me a niche in which I can operate professionally. You want to know information, I like to write, so you pay me (and my staff, of course) to write things for you. It’s a simple deal, and it has been a satisfactory one for many years now.
But I won’t live forever. Imagine the world as it could be a few decades from now, when the task of composing words has so few devotees that everything you read cam from a bot. You really don’t need to imagine much at all: you and I would probably be shocked if we knew how much of what we had read on social media was created by a computer.
The implications of AI to create necessary instructional models and products is exciting, but I’m less enthused with computers replacing writers, actors, artists and others who work to impact the world through use of creativity.
As we speak, there are newspaper organizations that have begun experimenting with using artificial intelligence to write stories for publication. And maybe that’s the natural progression of thing, but it’s unsettling to me.
I guess I’ll have to get over my trepidations about AI: when have you ever known technology to move backyard? Once the human race gets into our imaginations to do a thing, we generally persist in getting it done – and then, when we have reached the finish line, we take our newfound innovation past the point of its intended use and create a whole new set of problems to solve.
Oh, well. Perhaps that’s ll further in the future than we think. For the next several years, AI will likely remain a novelty – a way to use a website to assemble information into an organized written format, or to compose an ‘original’ painting of a llama playing an accordion. And, I would say, AI will soon be your first option for technology support.
Until that time when a helper-bot completely replaces my ability to reboot computers, change default settings on Microsoft Word and make the totals come out on the Excel spreadsheet, I have at least a little bit of job security.
Matt Pearl owns and operates The Tri-County Ledger.
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Approximately 39 percent of my time spent in education and in publishing goes to my being my own tech support.
Okay, that’s a made-up number. Most weeks it’s significantly less than that, but those weeks when I feel like I’m constantly making fixes to this, solving a font issue for that or getting an outdated computer going long enough to rescue a few useful files – well, those weeks make me feel like it’s me who’s getting a bit old.
But I can’t deny that working my way through a problem with technology gives me a thrill. And having other people think I know something about computers feels, well, nice.
Never mind that I can’t find my way around several of the games on my kids’ gaming console, and forget the fact that my last round of office tech repairs – figuring out how to turn the email function back on for the copier – took me two months. Still, in the right moment, I can shine for a minute or two.
Perhaps soon my skills as an amateur computer applications helper-outer will be obsolete. I can’t imagine that folks are pumping all of this money into artificial intelligence without there being a real possibility that AI will be our future tech support medium.
Artificial intelligence is intriguing and, I must admit, a bit frightening to me. My professional life has been dedicated to the written word, both as an English teacher and as a newspaper publisher. But it’s the task of writing that seems to be one of AI’s early targets.
People just don’t enjoy writing for the most part, preferring it only slightly to speaking in public. I like to write, but the fact that most people do not has given me a niche in which I can operate professionally. You want to know information, I like to write, so you pay me (and my staff, of course) to write things for you. It’s a simple deal, and it has been a satisfactory one for many years now.
But I won’t live forever. Imagine the world as it could be a few decades from now, when the task of composing words has so few devotees that everything you read cam from a bot. You really don’t need to imagine much at all: you and I would probably be shocked if we knew how much of what we had read on social media was created by a computer.
The implications of AI to create necessary instructional models and products is exciting, but I’m less enthused with computers replacing writers, actors, artists and others who work to impact the world through use of creativity.
As we speak, there are newspaper organizations that have begun experimenting with using artificial intelligence to write stories for publication. And maybe that’s the natural progression of thing, but it’s unsettling to me.
I guess I’ll have to get over my trepidations about AI: when have you ever known technology to move backyard? Once the human race gets into our imaginations to do a thing, we generally persist in getting it done – and then, when we have reached the finish line, we take our newfound innovation past the point of its intended use and create a whole new set of problems to solve.
Oh, well. Perhaps that’s ll further in the future than we think. For the next several years, AI will likely remain a novelty – a way to use a website to assemble information into an organized written format, or to compose an ‘original’ painting of a llama playing an accordion. And, I would say, AI will soon be your first option for technology support.
Until that time when a helper-bot completely replaces my ability to reboot computers, change default settings on Microsoft Word and make the totals come out on the Excel spreadsheet, I have at least a little bit of job security.
Matt Pearl owns and operates The Tri-County Ledger.
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