You've been hearing a lot about AI - but what exactly is it?
Basic Artificial Intelligence has been around for decades now- but in the last year, we've seen its power multiply immensely.
What can we expect, both in benefits and in negative consequences, from this rapidly growing technology?
See some AI tools in action and get a brief overview of the following:
Beneficial AI
- AI doctors and disease detection
- AI writing and editing
- AI art, music, movies, and marketing
- AI coding and gaming
- AI translation and language learning
- AI "friends" or therapists
- Personal assistants for meal planning, budgeting, taking dictation, recommending music, appealing health insurance denials, and more
- AI pattern recognition - for recognizing faces, identifying plants, and more
- OCR and historic documents
- Self-driving vehicles
Harmful AI
- Environmental impact
- Privacy and security concerns
- Purposefully targeted and accidental censorship
- Increasing lack of socialization and the societal problems this creates
- Theft of intellectual property to create "new" media
- AI scams - from phishing emails to "deep fakes" and realistic kidnapping
- Writing fact versus truth- i.e. reviews for non-existent books, citing case law that never happened
- Misinformation and reliance on AI decision-making without recognizing the problems of information scarcity and GIGO- the "eat rocks" issue
- AI vulnerability to bias - including racist trolling and "positive diversity bias"
- The trolley problem
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