Artificial Intelligence: A Revelation in My Life

Picture this: You have a complex project regarding the legal applications of law in literature amidst an already stressful week of an upcoming unit test in both physics and trigonometry. “Is there a way out?” is a question I would often ask myself, sitting at a desk with my papers scattered in sections while the lamp glares into my eyes, reminding me of the hundreds of other things I could be doing besides studying.

For better or for worse, AI has revolutionized and modernized life all around us. While AI has posed strong challenges in academic environments with lazy students being manufactured across the world, its multifaceted nature allows students to use these complex tools for educational learning—as long as it is used for its intended function.

An Allure of Bliss

When I was introduced to AI back in the fall of 2023 by a friend, my eyes were opened. A chatbot with a simple layout that takes user input and produces a piece that is referenced from hundreds of thousands of user data points from the internet. This perfection of Artificial Intelligence and its utilization of GenAI techniques in the form of chatbots has allowed many individuals’ productivity to skyrocket, including mine.

When I began using ChatGPT (GenAI chatbot developed by OpenAI), I would restrict my use to the bare minimum, like if I was ever stuck on a complex research project or literary analysis task with minimal documentation online. From this point onward, I have been using AI in my daily life. Whether it be to generate questions to practice for computer science tests or hackathons, complete in-depth literature analysis of hundreds of pages of law textbooks or ask questions about the world.

This has significantly improved my life. Rather than spending hours scouring Google for practice questions or videos to teach me, I have been able to use AI as a tutor and personal research assistant to become a more efficient person by minimizing the amount of time I spend per day on assignments.

And the cherry on top: I have ample time to spend with my family and go outside to enjoy my life.

While one may say that AI is taking over my life and causing me to be overly dependent, I disagree. Despite using ChatGPT for over a year and a half, I have never had to ask its AI chatbot to perform an entire assignment for me: this is because I take work as a challenge, not a chore. 

Development Never Ends

Although AI may be incorrect at times, the development of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude AI, DeepSeek AI, Google Gemini, and many more, and rigorous testing and training have solidified these tools to become almost three to five times more efficient and accurate than previous iterations.

Despite the irrelevance of this number to regular people, if I ask ChatGPT to generate a story for me, it can do so within seconds. Now imagine this, if it has been able to complete a task that takes hours for a student to complete in seconds, imagine how three to five times better it may be at these tasks. From this constant development, AI has blossomed to provide up-to-date information and resources that can give me the best prompts possible. For example, researching the best hackathon practice questions has been a challenge and as people become increasingly better at coding, questions become tougher. With updated resources to generate more questions, I can minimize the time I spend looking for practice questions online and practice more for these questions. Logic building and analysis have been among the very few traits of AI, but with constant development, it exemplifies itself as one of the best educational tools I have ever used, modernizing and revolutionizing my life incredibly. So overall, while development may seem irrelevant to its benefit in my life, as AI becomes better, I can use more efficient resources to learn better, achieve tasks efficiently, and spend less time performing menial tasks that often require extra work to manage. Rather than spending time finding proper material to practice for competitions or tests, these AI sources can instead provide me with material referenced from an array of data from publicly sourced material to help me study and become a better student, thus modernizing my school and personal life.

The Takeaway

AI chatbots and artificial intelligence resources have proven to be one of the most significant innovations of our generation. With resources that can give us in-depth research, knowledge, and incredible outputs based on user prompts, many have saved hours of research or understanding complex tasks.

Personally, while the whole ordeal of AI may seem conflicting in the sense that the nature of AI and students never mix well, I have a different view. When you use AI responsibly, you put more effort into your work.

While it may seem impossible to visualize this, if you use AI as a way to do research (and receive proper links/sources) or give you simpler instructions for assignments, you spend less time scouring lessons or the internet for resources and can jump into relevant tasks quicker, making you more efficient. So, by minimizing the time I spend doing side-jobs that are irrelevant to my task, I can instead focus on the more important parts, while having enough time to spend on my own with my family, communities, and things that I love.