Gamma App is a new form of template making wizard tapping on AI technologies. With Gamma App, you can set in certain specific requirements and watch it generate digital outputs laid out in pre-designed templates.
It is able to produce slide and website templates based on given themes.
Does this means that designers/programmers/developers will be out of a job? If you believe some of the more extreme and sensational articles written and floating in the internet about the more famous ChatGPT, you maybe influenced to think AI can take over a lot of the creative/creator type digital roles.
The answer for your immediate and forecasted future is no, designers/programmers/developers wouldn’t be out of a job. In fact good designers and programmers will be needed more than ever, and developers who can keep ahead of the curve, accurately assess and integrate new digital technologies into his/her/organisation’s toolkit will be vital for the growth of a company.
Are you ready to try and figure out how to use new technologies in your studies and work?
You may refer to a (work-in-progress) learning compilation “Intelligence by Design” -> “Section 9: Study Methods” -> “General Study Method and Template #01: Learning Plan” for the process to self-study and guide your learning flow to utilise a new technology.
A side note:
I will go deeper on the topic of why your digital skills are increasingly relevant in later posts on Business and Technology Intelligence. But perhaps one point to bring across now is that when we use technology to generate things, they come from a template, no matter how capable the technology is in generating vast permutations of different combination.
AI technology also runs the risk of data poisoning, this may likely lead to new cybersecurity risks & considerations in future once such technologies see wider adoption by programmer/developer as “black-box” support tools to develop critical digital nodes.
Can you read, check and reword a paragraph in English without knowing the language at an intermediate and advanced level? If you pause to think, you will realise the answer is that it depends.
· At a simple creative works level, you just need basic reading and understanding of the knowledge -> to proof-read someone’s work.
· But for creation of complex technologies or vast websites using automated support tools, checking someone’s work written in multiple programming languages requires one to have a higher level of understanding of how everything binds together. So programming and software engineering are still relevant, in fact more relevant in the future when AI technologies continues to produce code templates from its training data.
Don’t believe everything you read online. Check who wrote those sensational articles and their relationships in the industry. I will share more on the thinking and strategy behind why people write and push-out sensational articles, it is part of the “dark arts” of campaign management/ marketing/ raising investment value/ innovation theatre. As potential future technologists, as you advance to higher levels, you will need to learn how to dispel the smoke & mirrors in the business world.
I will leave you with a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
The best lies contain kernels of truth, and that’s why it is hard to unpack the bullshit. A strong technical and humanities foundation can help you see and understand emerging technologies better, as you consider how things are built, how things are put to work, how people can adopt things to do jobs.