A lot of pixels have been illuminated over whether AI is good or bad. These are not those.
This is how we, at Ente, think about AI.
This is about Ente's "Human First" approach.
There is no Singularity
There is speculation that AI will achieve singularity and enslave humans. Read Superintelligence: The idea that eats smart people if you need convincing that this is speculation. We need to be careful, but it is not a given.
Current AI tools, LLMs specifically, are just next word predictors. Just next word predictors can be very powerful, yes, and we have barely begun to explore their possibilities. But they will not replace humans. Augment them, but not replace. If you feel otherwise, you need to stop devaluing yourself and have more confidence in the soul that you have been given.
And if you don't believe in souls, look into your child's eyes.
AI is useful as an assistant
Both machine learning models and LLMs can do useful things. Our customers love how Ente can automatically recognize all the photos of their parents, or find all photos with the "seaside sunset", or group all photos of the birthday party they threw for their child.
It doesn't end there, we are continuously adding more and more such AI driven features. These are features that take away drugery, and add joy to the life of people who are using Ente.
Whereever there is a possibility to use AI (ML, LLM, whatever) to enhance the quality of life of people who use Ente, we will do it. And if that technology doesn't exist yet, we will invent it.
AI is not a replacement for humans
We are, fully, incontrovertibly, Team Human. No matter what an AI tool can do, no matter how intelligent it becomes, it cannot replace our parents, our children, our friends, our coworkers, and the countless other people who we are thankful to.
Ente will use the latest technology, and soon start inventing new technology, and AI is just another one of those technologies.
But technology is only a means to empower the human, not take control away from them.
As a short mnemonic, we internally refer to this as the "Human First approach to AI".