Can AI completely change the world?\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean like Skynet nuking all the cities.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about terminators slaughtering humans and rounding them up for extermination.\u00a0 I mean will the routine use of AI radically change human society?<\/p>\n
Some people will say it already has.\u00a0 I spoke to a hiring manager who said that three of the four applicants for a job he was trying to fill used the same wording in their resume for how their experience was relevant for the position.\u00a0 And I spoke to a teacher who said he routinely failed sixty percent of the homework he reviewed because it was obviously AI.<\/p>\n
In a sense those who say it already has, are right.\u00a0 The children have stopped using anything but their phones to interact with the world.\u00a0 Wikipedia and Chat GPT are the ultimate authority and the only way to learn.\u00a0 This is a real problem.\u00a0 And the only way forward is to extract the electronic devices from these kids and make them use the knowledge or lack of knowledge to show what they know in a test.\u00a0 In future, test rooms will be shielded from wi-fi and teachers will get those wands that airport security use to search for weapons.\u00a0 Only in this case the weapons will be iPhones.\u00a0 But what other changes are we in store for?<\/p>\n
One thing I\u2019ve heard a lot lately is that music, books and movies will be created by AI.\u00a0 And in a sense that will be true.\u00a0 AI is an accelerant.\u00a0 It can take an idea that it is given and flesh it out into a big flowery pile of mush that no one would call good.\u00a0 But that pile of mush probably can be pared and reshaped and cleaned up into something the author could use and do it faster than he could write that much story on his own.\u00a0 Is that a better way to do it?\u00a0 No, it\u2019s worse.\u00a0 But will it happen?\u00a0 Unfortunately, I think it will.\u00a0 In fact, from all I\u2019ve read it\u2019s already happening.\u00a0 Some woman bragged on-line that she used AI to write hundreds of romance\/porn novels under dozens of pseudonyms and made over a hundred thousand dollars by doing this.\u00a0 That\u2019s a pretty bleak reality brewing out there.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s kind of a shame.\u00a0 It seems to me what AI should be doing is using all this power to assist humans to make a superior product.\u00a0 I could see a writer wanting an AI to use only a small subset of good fiction to help a writer explore the techniques that great authors have used to draw characters and craft plots that appeal to intelligent readers and entertain them.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot better than loading up a trough with slop.<\/p>\n
Outside of entertainment and education I think AI will be enormously powerful.\u00a0 It\u2019s ability to research topics is amazing.\u00a0 The problem is the lack of transparency about how AI makes mistakes.\u00a0 Currently, the AI claims to be infallible and does not admit when some \u201cfact\u201d is actually false.\u00a0 What is going to be needed is a testing procedure to give users of AI a way of finding dangerous errors in the information they\u2019re being given.\u00a0 That\u2019s the world we will be living in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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