There is now an AI Pokedex that can identify Pokemon through the phone on your camera. AI is making a big leap into just about everything these days it seems, and now it’s going forward with such things like Pokemon in order to tell a person just which Pokemon they’re looking at. This way you don’t have to Google every last Pokemon by its description alone, which could produce a vast number of results. Wait, that doesn’t seem right. Most Pokemon have pretty different descriptions and can be identified in various ways, so why would the AI be needed? Right now it seems that the only reason is to keep people from actually learning on their own what’s what in the Pokemon world.
It’s an impressive program to be certain but all in all if a person doesn’t play Pokemon or isn’t into them, which there are still many upon many people that aren’t, then this app becomes less than useful. But for those that are into Pokemon and want to learn a little more about them it’s still kind of less than useful since the act of learning is taken away by a simple point and click method that allows the app to tell the person everything about them without the user having to really look anything up. Does anyone remember what life was like before we had phones that could do just about anything for us? We had games that didn’t need to be downloaded or paid for, the word app would never have been used without saying ‘application’ in whatever use the word was needed, and Pokemon fans would have had to actually research the creatures in order to know anything about them.
At this rate it seems as though AI is being designed to take the living out of life in some ways. It might seem like griping for the sake of griping about new technology and how it’s ‘ruining’ life, but honestly and truly the simpler things that AI is being used for these days just makes a case for leaving it out of the human experience at times simply because it erases the need to actually look things up and learn them on your own. Granted, Pokemon is a game, a merchandise line, and a cartoon and many other things so an app like this is fairly harmless, but it’s still one more thing that humanity tends to give into simply for the sake of expedience. Learning about Pokemon isn’t exactly a life skill that has a lot of application in a lot of fields, but the act of having an app to tell you everything about everything is a bad habit that negates the need to look anything up and find out on your own just what you need to know.
Are we depending a little too much on AI at this point? It could be, but it could also be that we’re looking for answers for just about anything in the easiest of ways when no matter how hard fact-finding was in the past, it was still a way to learn and to build character at the same time.
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