Writer: Helena Bergström
AI has quickly become a part of everyday life for most of us – whether you use it consciously or indirectly participate in things created with the help of AI. The development has gone really fast! We talk about how we use AI… and what we don’t like.
AI is a broad term
You could start by saying that AI, or artificial intelligence, is a broad term. There are many different types of AI with different areas of specialization.
A common variety is the so-called language models (LLM, Large Language Models), which are trained to understand and generate large amounts of text and language – for example by answering questions, writing texts or summarizing information. This type is relatively common to use at home, for example in the form of Chat GPT or AI Overviews (the AI mode in Google Search).
Other types of AI are built for very different tasks, such as recognizing faces in images, optimizing logistics, detecting fraud or driving self-driving vehicles. Regardless, it can be argued that AI suddenly exists everywhere …
How we use AI
We use AI a lot, and recently we even said to each other: “How did we do without it before?” It’s amazing how quickly you can change your habits. Here are some ways we use AI:
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Technical help and support
This is probably the most magical thing there is! Whenever we have technical problems – whether it concerns the computer, the TV, the drone, the mobile home or the house alarm – we ask Chat GPT to guide us through the problem step by step, in simple Swedish. Absolutely priceless!
To search for information
We use both Chat with GPT and Google to search for information. Sometimes I think AI can provide a quicker overview of complex questions (e.g. “Which shipping companies sail to Corsica?”), while in step 2 I want to google and look up each shipping company individually, via their respective websites.
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No matter how you search for information, it’s always important to check and double-check the facts. When using AI, you need to check the information in different ways, such as “Is this really correct?”, “Can you double-check it again?” or “What are your sources for this information?”
Brainstorming ideas
I sometimes use Chat GPT to brainstorm ideas and thoughts. It could be about development ideas for the site, or challenges we face. I can describe what I’m thinking about and get different suggestions and ideas. Usable!
Create images (if necessary)
On the site we often use our own photos, which we sometimes supplement with photos from free image banks. In some cases I can’t find the image I need, and then we can use AI to create an image (which we will of course highlight below the image so that it is clear).
Here’s what we don’t like about AI
Although we love certain aspects of AI, and although we benefit greatly from artificial intelligence in everyday life, we are not entirely positive.
AI is an assistant – but also a competitor
It’s sometimes said that “AI shouldn’t do your job – it’s an assistant that can help you do the job,” but it’s a truth with an adjustment. Some jobs will disappear permanently if the tasks can be solved with AI.
For anyone who creates digital publications, AI also becomes a kind of competitor. When people use Chat GPT instead of Googling, they get the answer directly in the chat, without having to ‘click through’ to the person who produced the text. As a content creator, this feels unfair, and in the long run, it leads to digital newspapers and magazines being forced to shut down operations.
Another kind of competition is that anyone can suddenly produce rich and informative text in two seconds. AI-generated texts on the internet clearly mean competition for us human writers…
You don’t know what “real” is
AI-generated content (whether images, videos, or texts) often can be terribly good and very similar to what is made by humans. How do you know what’s real?
One problem is that people are lured into believing things that are not true. Another problem is that when you become suspicious of most things in the feed, you don’t really know what to read or watch anymore. Because what can you really rely on?
It’s a bit scary…
The development with AI is amazing and fascinating in a way, but a bit scary, that’s all. When “Moltbook” (an online forum where AI agents can chat with each other and humans are only welcome as spectators) recently appeared, many people probably choked up.
Admittedly, those in the know say that the robots’ discussions (which in some cases are about wiping out humanity or about the robots planning their own religions/currency/languages/secret rooms) should be taken with a grain of salt, as it may be humans who have input into these discussions, rather than the robots making it all up on their own. But still…
Maybe not so that “Terminator” is behind the door, but the question is still whether we humans can judge where this is all going…?
What do you think of AI?
What is your opinion on AI? How do you use AI? What do you like, and what do you not like? What do you think will happen in the future…?
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