I know a lot of people are freaking out over the rise of AI (artificial intelligence). Currently I’m not one of them. At this point in my life I’m about ready to put out a welcome mat for our AI overlords. This is because I feel that the human race has gotten so lazy that AI in a lot of instances would be an upgrade
For instance, I just read a magazine article, a four-page article, in a well-known national publication that’s actually still printing and mailing out their issues, about how to take a shower.
This reporting gem covered such groundbreaking issues from how to rinse your hair to the correct order of scrubbing your body. Spoiler alert: you should shampoo first and then get busy with a washcloth.
My first reaction upon reading this masterpiece on hygiene was that this had to have been created by ChatGPT because I can’t think of a writer who wouldn’t push back on composing an article for adults on the correct way to shower.
Then I began to think that perhaps the whole magazine is now an AI creation because I also couldn’t begin to imagine an editor that would assign a writer a story on showering that included instructions on how to “towel off.”
But this shower nonsense is nothing compared to what’s happening in health care. I recently got my annual checkup and the doctor told me that AI is coming for medicine in a big way. She even pontificated that in the very near future we wouldn’t even see a human doctor. It would be a robot.
Honestly, that didn’t scare me because I think medicine has already ceded the whole doctor patient relationship to the health portal. Currently I have six different health portals. I just had to create a new one to get some blood work done. Ugh – the medical industrial complex has gone crazy with portals.
I now interact way more with portals more than I do with any doctor. A couple of months ago I got a CAT scan and no human with medical training ever called me. I had to go on the portal where the CT scan was done and read the radiologist report.
Me, a person with zero medical training whose last science course was a geology class back in 1983 that was so easy it was called “rocks for jocks” was now deciphering a report from a radiologist.
Mind blown.
For a second opinion on the report I texted it to my husband. His last brush with science was high school biology (taught that year by the typing teacher because the biology teacher resigned after the second week of school). Between the two of us we concluded that everything looked, I guess, okay.
After that experience I can tell you that Dr. Robot doesn’t sound so bad.
Now, I realize as I sing the praises of artificial intelligence that as a writer AI is forecasted to take over my job in less than 10 years. But I’m not concerned because my “lovely” son assured me I don’t have anything to worry about. The reason according to him was because I “write stuff that’s kind of stupid so it would be hard for AI to go that low.”
I’d get mad but I do write some stupid stuff. At least though I can say that I’ve never produced a 1,300-word column on how to take a shower.
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