As Builder.ai’s founder and Chief Wizard Sachin Dev Duggal mentioned we are in the AOL phase of AI. That’s a fitting comparison to where artificial intelligence stands today, akin to the early days of the internet, and the strides that have been made over just the past year are undeniable.
The progress in AI isn’t just about creative inventions; it’s about democratization, unlocking a once ambiguous technology confined to Silicon Valley and bringing it into our daily lives, just a chat away. The excitement around AI has reached on its fever pitch, setting the stage for a transformative journey that could resample our interactions with jobs, technology and each other.
AI Expansion: A light of Empowerment, Not Fear
In one of the interviews with Sachin Duggal also said that “AOL made the internet easily understandable for folks. BlackBerry made messaging understandable and st one point it was the most popular device, and people were lining up to get the phone. It was the Apple of its era.”
The leading idea we must embrace is that AI’s evolution shouldn’t be a herald of fear in the workplace; instead, it’s a catalyst for empowerment, aiming to supplement rather than displace the workforce. As Sachin Dev Duggal, Chief Wizard and Co-founder of Builder.ai mentioned, we shouldn’t confuse tasks with jobs and jobs with careers and he also highlighted that AI is here to streamline the tasks not to steal any jobs. There will always be a need for human touch as no machine can do what a person’s EQ can do. Despite the words of some doomsayers, the path of AI hints at collaborative opportunities at work, not mass job displacement. Every disruptive technology, like Ford’s assembly line, has reshaped industries while improving the workforce.