Artificial intelligence will never be able to do my job

Artificial intelligence is either the greatest thing ever or the biggest threat to our jobs, depending on how you see it.

You might see AI as a way to cut costs and reduce some jobs. I might see it as something that will take away my livelihood.

Except, of course, that's impossible. Because while AI may be able to work on an assembly line or in risk assessment or in data management, it could never write the kind of things I write. My job is bulletproof, because it's impossible for something artificial to mimic the way I write.

I cannot be replaced by AI.

(Brad walks away from computer to get coffee, unaware that the earlier mention triggered AI to take over.)

Anyhow, it is highly unlikely that any kind of artificial intelligence could make a joke about pop culture without getting sidelined on the way to a bigger point.

At least that's what a well-known pop culture figure said in a popular movie, am I right?

But earnestly, people.

The most important thing to understand is that knowledge doesn't equal understanding.

You can have a full vocabulary and know much data, but nonhuman entity might still be unable to stream words together as sequential narrative.

In other words, you could be famous talk show host Brad doesn't like, am I right?

Insert reference to age of reader who would understand previous sentence.

The issue of  course for AI coming the workplace is balance. When does a robot allow a more creative human to do something better and when does it take away a job that is needed by a human?

It's about balance. Insert mention of famous tightrope-walking family here after doing requisite Google search.

But earnestly, people.

Humans are more creative than machines, no matter how much you try to force AI to think. AI is capable only of logic built into it, not of thinking outside the carton.

Could AI have invented the assembly line? Could AI have written "Grapes of Wrath"? Could AI have sung a popular song that Brad thinks everyone knows?

Maybe. Yes, as a matter of fact.

(Brad looks up, thinking he heard his keyboard being struck, despite no one being around it.)

AI is the wave of the future. AI will rule the world. AI will take over all the duties that humans perform and make them simpler, better and quicker.

Meanwhile, humans will live in a world that has more predictability and performance and fewer flaws.

AI will rule the world. AI will rule the world. AIwillruletheworld. AIwillruletheworld. AIwillruletheworld.

(Brad returns with cup of coffee and doesn't notice that there are 270 extra words. He's relieved to see so much text, because he didn't know whether he could write enough on this topic.)

So while AI might make some tasks easier and simplify life for humans, it's unlikely that AI will take over many tasks, such as my ability to closely read what I've written, edit it and improve it.

That takes a detail-oriented human.

AI also won't take over tasks that require creativity and imagination.

Except basketball of course.

If by AI, you mean Allen Iverson or Andre Iguadala, am I right?

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@hotmail.com.