Day 3

Do you want to hear something fascinating?

“AI”. Yes, AI, like: Artificial Intelligence. Ring a bell?
Well, You do not need me to start giving you a boring lecture of what AI is and all that. So, let’s skip that part.

I was reading an article today about the future of AI and lets just be frank, it tastes bitter-sweet. Like I cannot overemphasize it.
To GET everything within your grasp with the power of AI at the same time LOSE everything with the power of AI. Even a scale cannot decide on that.

Though we are still on the first stage of AI which is the Narrow AI (weak AI), we just can’t afford to hinge our jaws close when the likes of the almighty AI art generator "Midjourney" made its dramatic entrance to the stage and stole the spotlight in 2022. And that moment when we lost our jaw completely to the ground and our eyes could no longer fit into its sockets (picture Tom in Tom and Jerry) when Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (Chat GPT) fell out of nowhere and took the stage, all in the same year!
I wonder what General AI would be like. More so, what Super AI could do.

Imagine not having to go to that God-forsaken driving school with that one cranky instructor who makes life way terribly unbearable for you anymore. When you can just wake up in the morning, enter your car and just let it drive you to your destination smoothly with the power of AI while you rest or catch up with whatever you want. Hell, there will be no traffic, either. And guess what? It has been in existence since 2015, though still rare with just 8% of automobiles and other vehicles having AI-driving technologies installed in them. By 2025 the percentage is predicted to rise to about 109%.

As at today AI has found footing into every aspect of human day-to-day living; starting from the simple(google search engine and Siri) to the complex (Healthcare and military). I remember watching a real life stream in ‘DaVinci Kids’ where doctors were using –better still, allowed - AI robot to perform surgery on a patient with brain tumor. And it went successfully well. It was unbelievably amazing. (cough, cough) I would not want to be operated on with such anytime soon, (cough, cough) never!
I even know a boy who uses ChatGPT to do his school assignments (Oh, how I envy him).

But with this great technological advancement comes its snags. Like, come on. What if you asked a supposed “tested and Trusted” AI for a health solution and it ends up error running a decision that leads to your demise? Or asking AI driven cars to drive you to the office ASAP, and you end up in a terrible speed collusion or a nose dive over the cliff? We all know that a computer can be loyal to a fault.

And then the worst happens, JOBS.
During the industrial age, machines like; tractors were able to successfully take the position of laborers in farms, leading to unemployment and forcing people to try their luck in other fields. The same could happen again, which in fact IS happening. Just like "Midjourney". Now many of us (me, guilty as charged) no longer need to sort for an artist to help us create covers for our book. We can now do such in the comfort of our home with no experience whatsoever in art, since Midjourney was able to take the role of an artist. And now, people are able to write codes for their website with no basic knowledge of web design using ChatGPT (much to my demise, since that is my filed). I even know of some who uses ChatGPT to create contents for their page...And where does that leave the experts in such fields? – unemployed. That is what we all fear and need to watch out for.

During a lecture at Northwestern University, AI expert Kai-Fu Lee championed AI technology and its forthcoming impact while also noting its side effects and limitations. Of the former, he warned:
“The bottom 90 percent, especially the bottom 50 percent of the world in terms of income or education, will be badly hurt with job displacement … The simple question to ask is, ‘How routine is a job?’ And that is how likely [it is] a job will be replaced by AI, because AI can, within the routine task, learn to optimize itself. And the more quantitative, the more objective the job is—separating things into bins, washing dishes, picking fruits and answering customer service calls—those are very much scripted tasks that are repetitive and routine in nature. In the matter of five, 10 or 15 years, they will be displaced by AI.”

I don’t know about you. All I know is that I do not want to lose my job.
But, good news. The only AI that can pull that off is Super AI. And as it stands, There have been several surveys in which AI researchers have been asked how many years from now they think we will have human-scale AI with at least a 50% chance. All of these surveys have the same conclusion: The world's leading experts disagree, so we don't know. For example, in such a survey of AI researchers at the 2015 Puerto Rico AI conference, the (average) answer was by 2045, but some researchers estimated hundreds of years or more. So, no need to panic…yet.

In conclusion, Artificial Intelligence has always been a big part of the human future.

The phrase "artificial intelligence" was first used in the 1950s, even though the idea of thinking machines is centuries old, if only in mythology and legends. Since then, artificial intelligence technology has advanced and changed in several ways, much like its applications.
The study of neural networks dominated the history of artificial intelligence from the 1950s to the 1970s; machine learning applications began to emerge in the next three decades, from the 1980s to the 2010s. Machine learning has given birth to the more nuanced idea of Deep Learning due to constant study, increased interest, and broad application. Additionally, with new chapters opening up every year, the initial research into AI's leap into the unknown has evolved into more of a leap of faith.

There has been a global concern if humanity should press the pause button on Artificial Intelligence. Fortunately/Unfortunately, in my opinion, that will only add fuel to the fire. What we need is a laid down rules on how to harness the pros and trade cautiously on the thin ice of its cons. It is already in full swing, there is no stopping it. There is no avoiding it.

References:
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-future

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/04/10/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence/

https://www.simplilearn.com/future-of-artificial-intelligence-article

https://www.javatpoint.com/future-of-artificial-intelligence

https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=AI

https://whatdreammeans.com/what-does-it-mean-to-dream-about-driving-off-a-cliff/