📝 AI approximations and your skills

We are all smart and skilled. Each in our own way.

I was never good at drawing. Never clicked for me. The best I can draw is a bunch of stickmen or a simplified car.

With AI, I can merely write a prompt describing the image I want.

And since I’m no artist or a design pro, if one of the generated images looks good enough to my untrained eyes, I take it.

Although these outcomes are approximations of what I had in mind. Still better than nothing.

I could’ve never created any of them on my own anyway.

Just look at the avocado man typing away like there’s no tomorrow amid dancing penguins and flamingos.

To my mind, AI is a great equalizer of approximates.

But can a society be rendered approximate as a whole?

Can and should people get accustomed to approximations across the board?

Although if you are good at something, AI already leverages and streamlines your polished skills. Minimal or no approximations.

It’s just that we, as organic humans, should not lose that spark of striving for excellence at what we truly enjoy doing.

But who am I kidding?

AI-generated viral videos, posts, books, curriculums, songs, job descriptions, videogames, friends, spouses, human behaviors.

All approximated to no end.

Until approximations are all we have left and all we have ever known.

Don’t let yourself get approximated. Be honest with yourself and get genuinely good at something.

It might be drawing. It might be something else.

You know you.