Chapter 1: The First Spark
The day started just like any other, until I opened my phone. It was my friend's birthday, and I wanted to do something special for her- an image with a heartfelt wish. Birthday is always special for me. They weren't just about sending a plain "Happy Birthday" message.
I wanted to add something creative, something that would make my friend smile. But as I started at the blank screen, I felt stuck. What should I write? How should I design the image? My mind was full of ideas, but none of them felt right. For a moment, I thought about giving up and just sending a simple text. But then another thought came—why not try GPT?
With that decision, everything changed.
So, I opened GPT and typed a simple request: "Create a birthday image and write some wishes." Within seconds, the screen lit up with possibilities. Bright, colourful images appeared- balloons, cakes, flowers-all ready to be used. Alongside them, there were Dozens of birthdays wishes written in different style: funny, emotional, poetic, even short and sweet ones.
I scrolled through them, smiling. Some made me laugh, some made me think of my childhood memories with my friend, and some were so beautiful that I almost wished someone had written them for me.
Finally, I picked one. I felt just right—warm, personal, and perfect for the occasion. With a few taps, I merge the image and the wish together. And in less than a minute, my gift was ready. I hit "send."
My friend replied almost instantly:" Wow, this is so beautiful!" I could almost hear her excitement through the screen. But while my friend was happy with the wish, my mind was somewhere else. A strange curiosity began to grow inside me. How did this happen so quickly? How could a machine, a program, create an image and a heartfelt wish in just seconds?
I sat there, staring at the glowing screen. I realized something powerful—GPT wasn't just about birthdays, create contents, explain complex topics, even guide me when I felt lost. It felt like there wasn't a single question in the world that it didn't have an answer to.
That thought gave me goosebumps. Was this magic? Or science?
From that day, my ordinary morning changed. I didn't just want to use these platforms; I wanted to understand them. Who created them? How do they work? Where do they get all this knowledge from? And so, my journey began—into the hidden world behind the phone.
Chapter 2: The Invisible Engine
That night, after sending the birthday wish, I couldn't sleep easily. My phone lay beside me, its dark screen almost daring me to touch it again. I kept thinking about the same question: How did it create everything so instantly? The next morning, I try to ignore it, but the thought kept coming back. I opened my phone again—not to scroll through social media or to reply to messages, but just to look at it differently. For the first time, I realized something: this little device wasn't just a phone. It was a doorway into another world, one that I didn't really understand.
As the day went on, I started noticing things I had ignored before. When I opened my shopping app, it suggested exactly the same things I had been thinking. When I scrolled through social media, it showed me several post that matched my mood perfectly. When I searched for something simple, the answer was already waiting, almost before I finished typing. It felt like the phone wasn't just listening—it was watching, predicting, and guiding me.
At first, it was exciting. Imaging having an invisible friend who always knew what you wanted before you even asked. But then, another thought crossed my mind: Was I really choosing, or was it choosing for me? The idea unsettled me. My birthday wish for my friend was just the surface. Behind it, there seemed to be an invisible engine running everything—shopping, entertainment, conversations, even the way I thought. I looked at the people around me. everyone's eyes were on their screens— It was as if the world inside the phone had become more powerful than the world outside it.
That evening, I sat quietly and think—Are we using the phone… or is the phone already using us?
The thought scared me deeply and left me disturbed. Dark, negative thoughts started circling in my mind. I realized that as technology improves, a shadow grows alongside it—the shadow of its negative impact…..If something can so easily create a negative impact on life, it is because it already knows everything about us—what makes me happy, what makes me sad, what makes me cry, what I desire, and even whom I love. It notices everything silently. These thoughts started to fill my mind and with time they made me more and more anxious.
I was still turning the thought over in my head when sleep finally took me. In the dream, a stranger stepped out of the shadows. He didn't look frightening, but he carried a calm, knowing look—as if he had read my whole life like a open book. He also knew that the secret wish I had never told anyone. I tried to ask him questions, before I could understand anything, the dream shattered and I woke up gasping. That morning, I made a decision, I would not leave this mystery to chance.
Chapter 3: Seeds of Understanding
When I started learning about AI, a flood of new terms appeared before me—Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Network… At first, I felt overwhelming. I didn't know where to begin or which path to follow. Each word sounded to technical like a secret language spoken only by scientists. But slowly, as I read and explore more, the fog began to clear. I realized something simple yet powerful: these platforms whether GPT or any other platforms works almost like a small child. It observes, it listens, and it learns from our conversations-every question, every answer, every mistake.
To test this, I asked some questions which is related to emotions:
What is the meaning of friendship?
What is the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of love?
The reply surprised me. I didn't feel like a robotic answer. Instead, it was emotional, almost human. I felt like the AI had read thousands of people's feelings, collected their emotions and stitched them into an answer just for me.
One another questions come in my mind and that made me pause. If this "child" is learning from us, then every word—good or bad become its lesson. Every sentence is like a seed planted in its growing mind. We are not just shaping machine…maybe we are shaping our own future without even realizing it.
The more I learned, the clearer things became. These systems don't just answer questions—they predict what we want, sense our moods, and adapt to our habits it wasn't only GPT; I found many other platforms- names like Grok, DeepSeek, cloud—each quietly learning from the words we share. AI had crept into every corner of life: Study, hospitals, factories optimizing work, even research and shopping. It felt like the whole world had a hidden engine humming in the background.
Yet learning calmed me more than it frightened me. knowledge gave me power. I understood that the danger wasn't the idea of AI itself but how much we revealed. If I could secure my privacy and be careful about what I shared, I could protect myself. That thought brought a deep, steadying relief.
Chapter 4: The Expanding Web
As time goes by, I learn more about AI. With every new discovery, my curiosity grows stronger—I want to know deeply it is involved in industries, studies, research, hospitals and almost every part of life. But alongside this curiosity, a small worry keep following me. If AI is present in so many fields, then what will happen to human value?
My concern only grew when I heard that many companies had already begun layoff because machines and algorithms were replacing human roles. It felt like AI was spreading silently like a web. Each standard touch different corner of life—from the apps we use for shopping, to the tools researchers use in labs, to the systems hospitals depends on for faster diagnoses.
Everywhere I looked, the web of AI was stretching wider, binding humans and machine together. At times the web looked beautiful—saving lives in hospitals, reducing error in industries, opening new opportunities for students and researchers. But at the same time, its shadows scared me. What if one day this web becomes so strong that we humans are only small knots inside it, with no freedom to move?
So many questions began to fill my mind. The more I thought, the more restless I became. Finally, I decided: I must understand AI deeply, so I don't get trapped by fear or confusion in the future. And for that, I needed to start from the beginning. I turned toward history, because only by learning where AI came from could I truly understand what it is today.
I had already watched countless video about AI history, but none of them gave mee the full picture. Every time I closed one, more questions popped into my head. Finally, I decided- maybe my computer professor could explain it better. The next morning, I went to college with all my doubt heavy in my mind. When I met him, I told him everything—my sleepless nights, my endless curiosity, my fear of AI taking over. He listened patiently then smiled and said,
"Ask me everything you want."
So, I did.
"Sir", I began, where did AI even start? It feels like it came out of nowhere.
He leaned back in his chair. It didn't appear suddenly. Long ago, a small group of scientists gathered and asked a bold question: "Can a machine think like human"? that was the seed of AI. I nodded, feeling a little bit relieved that it had such a small simple beginning. But sir I continued why didn't I hear much about it before? Why it is so powerful only now.
He chuckled, because in early days, AI was like a child with too many rules. It could only do what people told it step by step. That wasn't enough. But later a scientists found new way – they let the machine learn from data, just like children must learn from experience. That changed everything.
And GPT sir? I asked softly.
His eyes brightened. That's the latest leap. Instead of only learning from numbers, these systems began to understand language—our words, our stories. That's why GPT feels so human when it answers you.
Chapter 5: unfinished questions
As the professor replied to my questions, my curiosity only grew stronger. His calm voice and patient explanations made me feel like every answer was opening a hidden door. At home, my mind refuses to rest. The more I thought, the more restless I became.
New questions came in my mind; to catch them, I kept a notebook by my side. On its pages, I pored all my doubts and thoughts line by line. By morning, those pages became my weapons, and I carried them straight to the professor, ready for another round of answer.
This cycle continued for many months. Every day brought new questions, everyday a new search. Only after several months did I finally begin to see the detail of AI clearly.
But at the same time, I realized something else knowledge is never complete. No matter how much you learn, it always feels less. It's like a deep river-you may swim for miles, yet the other shore seems far away.
I realized that the true journey isn't about finding every answer, but about learning to embrace the questions—and in that I found a strange kind of peace.
Thank you!