I honestly feel like what AI is really doing is just clarifying what we’re actually doing. This whole article reminds me of my reaction when I first saw chatgpt

I honestly feel like what AI is really doing is just clarifying what we’re actually doing. This whole article reminds me of my reaction when I first saw chatgpt write an essay. I immediately recognized that this essay would’ve been accepted by my teacher when I was a kid, and then remembered just how useless I thought essays were back when I had to write them. It feels like, with AI, I had proof that these essays were just “busy work” rather than anything else. As a student, I was just taking the prompt that my teacher gave me and expanding it into an essay, and there was no information in the essay that wasn’t already in the prompt itself. Why is it useful to take something that could be said in a single sentence and say it in 5 pages? I wasn’t encouraged to think about the book I was writing the essay about because my thoughts were seen as secondary to doing the technical work and simply copying the style and format of the essay, but now, with AI, that part had been automated and all that education was for nothing. It seems like Gymnastics really is, at it’s heart, a very technical act. Your goal is to achieve perfect normal angles for some reason. But as robots begin to dispel the haze around technical work, we stop being so interested in technicality. You can see it as an attack if you’re really invested in that technical stuff, but really you gotta ask yourself why you were so interested in it in the first place.