It is common knowledge that programming and coding is an essential function of computer science. Right now more than ever is the best time to get into coding as well, but there’s a new technology out there that may affect that. The technology I’m talking about is AI. The term AI means “artificial intelligence.” Humans obviously have developed computers and code, but what happens when the computers are able to carry out functions on their own? It truly is a scary thought when thinking deep about it.
A few months ago, a new website called “ChatGPT” emerged and some people didn’t quite know what it was. The term AI was brought about by the people who made it, but what were the true capabilities? When I heard about this during my first semester of college, I tried ChatGPT out. I was absolutely blown away by how a computer could practically understand very advanced instructions and perfect it. I was very hooked on how far I could push the AI and kept experimenting. I was currently in Calculus 2 and wondered how well it could perform very complex problems. The AI answered with absolute ease.
There is a controversy about ChatGPT and other AIs. A lot of users started questioning if answers to math equations or stuff about history was correct information. I myself also started wondering if this can even be credible. Many users did their research and found out that while it is impressive how fast and useful the AI bot can be, the information it is giving you can be misleading and flat out wrong. That can give some people a relief, and especially me because I am a computer science major.
Numerous majors could be scared right now in college because companies could easily replace us with AI so they wouldn’t have to pay for more employees. Software engineers and computer science majors could be in big trouble if this technology improves vastly over the next few years. Another scary thing about AI is its ability to adapt. AI is capable of adapting almost instantly if something is wrong. It learns things like a brain, but in much less time.
I hope I haven’t scared you too much after this, but AI is definitely something to consider if you are trying to think of a certain career field you’d like to go into. It’s good to educate people as well on this topic because some think that AI will take over the planet or something else along that nature. That isn’t true for the most part. AIs have to be developed by companies and those companies put in procedures that the code must follow. If there is one thing you should learn from this, it should be that AI has a very interesting future and we should all learn more about it.
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