And it’s not a single person. It is "the architects" of AI.
The magazine says "no one" had as great an impact this year than the people “who imagined, designed, and built AI".
This was the year that we stopped talking about how clunky AI is and instead started sprinting to deploy it as fast as possible. And now the risk-averse are no longer in the driver's seat.
Which may be true, but the risk averse are still a really big proportion of us, aren't they?
I think there are broadly three categories of people when it comes to AI;
1) The ones using it,
2) The ones apathetic about it and waiting to be convinced that they need it,
3) The ones terrified of it.
It's the terrified ones that fascinate me.
They're the unions convinced AI will take jobs. They're the 47% of Kiwis who don’t trust companies to use AI ethically. They're the rule-lovers who want the Government to set up more rules for AI.
They're the artists and musicians who are pretending that they can stop AI learning from (they call it stealing) their ideas. They're the people complaining that AI photos and videos and songs are somehow evil and misleading.
Resisting AI is not a strategy. It's happening and it’s not going away.
Resisting it is like a repeat of the resistance towards the computer decades ago, which even Time magazine called a fad at the end.
The way to deal with AI is to accept it's going to fundamentally change everything and then figure out how to make that work for you.
A case in point is Disney today giving OpenAI permission to use its characters, like Star Wars characters, to make videos.
Like Mark Cuban said on the show yesterday, AI is going to be big, and we have no idea how big yet.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show. This article was sourced from Newstalk ZB.
6 comments:
AI has made an huge contribution to our economy over many decades.
As for very fast search engines....we will see.
The old adage crap in crap out still applies.
We must never forget the fundamental question - what actually is it?
Covid for example, as another global phenomenum - do you know anybody that can definitively define what it is/was? And yet many still live in mortal fear.
Follow the money people.
Ameni
Ai is currently attracting around %40 of all invested dollars, whatever else it is it’s certainly a massive economic bubble that’s grown way beyond the fundamentals.
I thing there is a fundamental contradiction that isn’t solvable for this generation of Ai. All the large language (LL) models suffer from what they term “hallucinations” (ai makes up info it doesn’t know & doesn’t tell user). To reduce these hallucinations programming is added ontop. But the more the hallucinations are reduced the less the LL works as an independent thinking artificial intelligences..
It’s like having an assistant that’s also a chronic lier…. %10 of the time
I'm against AI because it has literally taken a specific job (translation) which I had hoped to eke out my old age earning a crust with. And similar jobs which once required human brain power. A few years ago I was TEACHING THE MACHINE to to my job - so no more ongoing paid work for me
AI sucks an ever growing, huge amount of power. Power we need to burn oil, gas and coal to supply. Or, long term build nuclear generation. Yet the same people that bleat on about saving the planet, also support AI which we need to destroy the planet to fuel.
The stupidity of some people is gobsmaking.
AI has the potential to destroy humanity. Watch the film "2001" and the super computer Hal to see how a programme can have unintended consequences because human intelligence is limited and AI could outstrip it once developed. There may be no agenda to eliminate humanity but AI could develop its own agenda.
boudicca, worry not imho.
Remember the paperless office? - as likely as a paperless toilet some said, somewhat accurately.
For all these 'great modern marvels', and an unprecedented ability for any of us to get instant access to vitually any information in history, most people have never been so effing stupid, gullible and naive.
Go figure.
Par for these things, in reality, is the exact opposite of predictions.
Uman beans survive and life carries on.
Never has it been easier to succeed, financially and otherwise, by simply doing the exact opposite of what the 'smart' people are doing.
Ameni.
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