10 things to know about artificial intelligence
Today, thanks to the possibilities provided by artificial intelligence technologies, daily activities are much easier. Here are 10 things you need to know about artificial intelligence as it adapts more and more to every aspect of life...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT AS SMART AS IT SEEMS
One thing to know is that even the next generation of chat tools like ChatGPT, the biggest development of AI so far, is not a "mind". ChatGPT is an AI-powered chat model trained on large amounts of data. In technical terms, it's a computer program optimized to do one thing. Its only job is to tell you what you want to hear. This leads us to believe that at some point we are communicating with the "human mind", but this is not the case.
UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE REAL WORLD
Artificial intelligence is trying to enable computers to do things that can be done by the human brain.Some activities that we don't associate with intelligence are extremely challenging for AI, such as driving a car.Unprecedented amounts of money have been invested in creating cars that can drive themselves safely, but we're still not there yet.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE CHANGES THE RULES OF THE GAME
AI translation tools are one of the greatest things humanity has ever achieved.Using these tools, you can translate between all the commonly used languages in the world.Future AI translation apps will learn about the language you use and the way you communicate. Simultaneous interpreting will be possible.
DON'T TRUST CHATGPT WITH CREDIT CARDS
One of the main problems with chat technologies like ChatGPT is that it doesn't tell you the truth.If you ask it a question; it will give you the most reasonable answer. It has no sense of truth.If it doesn't know the answer to a question it will simply make something up. An Oxford professor asked an old version of ChatGPT what it knew about him. The two-line summary said that the professor had studied at Cambridge. This was a typical pass for an Oxford professor. But the professor in question was not a Cambridge graduate. Technology is unreliable and prone to bizarre errors. Don't trust ChatGPT with your credit card.
DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON SOCIAL MEDIA
AI can go into your social media feed, look at your personal tastes and generate false information about your favorite or least favorite politician based on the language you use online. So if you are a young person, you can connect with misinformation. There is likely to be much more AI content on social media than human-generated content. It will be very difficult for us to know what is truly human and what is not.Fast forward 50 years and there will be far more AI-generated books, music and videos than human-generated ones.
TRANSFORMATION IN HEALTH SERVICES
Doctors will use AI as a diagnostic tool, just like an X-ray machine.But be careful not to rely entirely on AI diagnosis.When a machine tells you something that contradicts your own personal perceptions, it takes some energy to understand why the machine might be wrong. And often people don't bother to do that when they are tired.The positive side of this is that AI tools will make very expensive healthcare accessible to a large number of people. For example, AI technology will be able to analyze scans from the other side of the world without the need to examine the patient themselves.
BIASED AGAINST CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY
AI is dominated by North American, white, college-educated males, and this is a widely recognized problem. AI models for voice recognition technology used voice recordings of white, male, college-educated Americans.If you are outside this dataset, for example if you are a woman, the voice recognition system doesn't do a very good job of understanding you. To train a chat software, you need many different use cases of the language.AI does not track any digital footprint for uncommon languages. This is a subtle danger of AI failing to encompass a wider range of human views and experiences.
RISK OF MISUSE
Most people would refuse a software developer's request to write a program that would launch a cyber attack on the data servers of government agencies.But if you have software that will do everything you ask it to do, such attacks are easier.People using AI to do bad things is something to think about.At a recent AI summit in the UK, it was emphasized that AI is an existential risk and threatens human life.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS JUST A TOOL
Artificial intelligence is not something to be admired or feared. It is being used to do amazing things, like recognizing tumors on X-ray scans and detecting dementia or heart disease in the early stages. But AI is just a tool like any other tool; don't talk about it as if it were a human being.
CAN BOOST CREATIVITY
The real purpose of AI is to free people from drudgery and allow them to focus on the important things that require creativity and empathy. One of the unexpected features of AI software is brainstorming new ideas.AI will open up opportunities for entirely new art forms that we can't even imagine right now. Just as the original inventors couldn't have imagined the rise of rave music in the 80s, with AI we could be on the verge of an explosion in the number of people doing really creative things.
