The magnificent seven ways in which AI can transform human life

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Over the course of human history, some technologies have had a more profound impact than others. Arguably, fire was the first ‘technology’ tamed by humans, which then led to agriculture, the printing press, electricity, computing, the internet and so on.

These technologies are sometimes referred to as GPTs, which is not short for the ‘generative pre-trained transformer’ of ChatGPT, but for ‘general purpose technologies.’ Most GPTs not only impact businesses and the economy, they also reshape societies, politics and geopolitics, and often humanity itself. Arguably, artificial intelligence (AI) is also a GPT that could have a similar impact.

While the astonishing creative and conversational abilities of GenAI bots like ChatGPT and its ilk have made waves across the world, I believe that the impact of AI will be far more profound than we can imagine from its current uses. Here are seven significant ways in which AI will reshape our lives: AI is the new UI: Microsoft founder Bill Gates, while talking about how we can harness the power of machines, spoke of how each successive change in the user interface (UI) of computers brought about a leap forward in human productivity.

The graphical user interface (GUI), for example, completely changed how we could leverage computing, followed by the browser, the search bar, and, finally, apps. With AI, and Generative AI in particular, our natural voice will become the new UI, and we will work with machines in the same collaborative, natural and human way that we work with a human co-worker.

Agents are the new platform: Gates, again, described how ‘dumb’ apps will be replaced by agents who could perform tasks on our behalf. A travel itinerary today involves interacting with several apps