Humans Vs AI–How AI impact humans in the future?

 Humans Vs AI – AI impact humans in the future

KAKALI DAS

There is a growing fear that is bigger than the fears of religion or being in danger or asking questions to the Govt.

Google panicked after Microsoft backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT grew in popularity.

As people started using ChatGPT for search, Google feared losing the search engine market. That is why Google hastily launched BARD, their own AI platform as a competition to ChatGPT. Google posted sample used of BARD. For example – what new discoveries from the JWST can I tell my 9-year-old about? (an alternative to ChatGPT?)

But there arose a problem – BARD told that JWST took the very first picture of an exoplanet, but NASA denied it. As confirmed by NASA, first pic of exoplanet was taken by European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), way back in 2004. AI is so competitive – one wrong answer by Bard, and Google stocks tumbled in a day – 7%, losing $100.

The application that has Google worried, is called ChatGPT. It’s a chat bot which responds to your query in text. Where Google finds info from all over the internet – ChatGPT has natural language processing ability, so it responds like a human. ChatGPT can prove to be comparatively more useful than Google. Like, ChatGPT can write a patriotic poem for you, complete your homework, crack exams, etc. Only time will tell what all artificial intelligence can do.

Will science fiction come to reality? Will robots think and behave like humans? Will machines rule over humans in the future?

There isn’t a debate that the technology is evolving fast – Tesla’s self-driving cars, for example. Advanced chip makes our devices work like a supercomputer. Voice recognition technology arrived a while back, for example commanding Alexa to do this, do that, etc. Once I asked Alexa – when will there be ache din in the country? And she replied, Go to Pakistan! (humour intended)

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence that receives information, processed by machines and acts in such a way that would normally be done by humans. A simple example of AI is the computer playing Chess that knows the game, understands your moves and responds accordingly. Google maps, autofill and recommendations are other examples of simple AI.

An evolving or learning entity that analyses your day to day activity and responds however fits. AI is built on information – like the last song you heard, the last movie or store you went to, etc. – information is interlinked and translated into a personal assistant.

English mathematician Alan Turing was the first to posit artificial intelligence. Turing explained his idea in a 1950 paper with the help of a game – The Imitation Game. This was popular in parties – a boy and a girl locked in separate rooms and guests had to guess which room had a boy or a girl. A question is written and passed along.

Answer to that question may help in guessing the right person.  Persons locked must write the answer smartly so that guests cannot guess correctly. That’s important – boy or girl had to answer intelligently so as to not reveal their gender, and the game is not over.

Turing’s plan was to place a computer in a place of boy or girl – will the computer be able to fool the guests, with its answers, into thinking it’s a human? If so, then the computer can think – this is called Turing Test, which is used to determine if or not a computer is capable of thinking like human being.

In 1956, the term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined in Dartmouth college. A concept that was introduced about 70 years ago is on the verge of changing the world today. AI is now replacing humans in several jobs. Manufacturing, packaging, data analysis and even basic coding can be done with AI. Does this mean that the software industry is in danger now?

The answer is complicated, though. Because of the advent of AI, software industry will change rapidly – AI will consume jobs if you stop learning and growing.

ChatGPT was launched in Nov 2022 after years of development, and became viral instantly. Not only text chat, AI can also generate pictures if you want – converting random words into images. The image is generated in the same representational value as written in the text. This process of diffusion is now used even in video making.

This machine learning technology can also be used to create deep fake videos. One can pose as a celebrity, for example. The original celebrity may be taken aback by the result as well. How can this be used for good?

Deep-fakes and cybercrimes as a result are on the rise. To understand how this works – just like our brain has interconnected neurons, computer can also create a neural network of information that is called machine learning. The responses by computer to our everyday instructions include billions of calculations.

“There isn’t a debate that the technology is evolving fast – Tesla’s self-driving cars, for example. Advanced chip makes our devices work like a supercomputer. Voice recognition technology arrived a while back, for example commanding Alexa to do this, do that, etc. Once I asked Alexa – when will there be ache din in the country? And she replied, Go to Pakistan! (humour intended)”

Now, let’s understand their positive or negative impact on our lives.

One thing is clear – it will make life easier. Repetitive tasks can be performed comfortably, where human error may occur. We can depend on machine and artificial intelligence to perform our day to day operations that will be easily managed. Machine can become a friend. It can make life convenient – for instance, manual scavenging that was outlawed a while ago but still continues, may be handled by AI assisted machines.

Is artificial intelligence dependable?

Despite being an advanced system, AI may acquire further development – for example: National law review report shows that driverless cars have higher rate of accidents than human driven cars – 9.1 compared to 4.1 per million miles, which is more than double. So, more development is underway. But, if self-driven cars become the norm, whose fault will it be in case of an accident?

Who will claim for an insurance then? These technical problems can be solved by humans. A safe self-driven car sounds good, but it’s still far from reality.

Can AI be biased?

E-commerce giant Amazon used AI to shortlist resumes in 2015 – after all, Amazon’s business is more or less governed by artificial intelligent systems. But Amazon found that the AI was not hiring in a gender-neutral way. The reason being – AI learns from surroundings; it taught itself that male candidates were preferable in the industry.

Amazon scrapped the program and started shortlisting manually again. Moral of the story – AI cannot do everything. But what if AI was used to filter politicians? If Ai is used for this purpose it will make voter’s job easier – all bad candidates will be filtered out. How easier will our life be then! (Think!)

Is there a problem of job loss due to AI?

Biggest problem from AI – job losses. Automation poses danger to many digital creators, low level technicians, etc. Not only techies, artists and writers may also come under the grasp of AI, and what if AI-run machines can perform surgery too? What if AI ran our government? It’s a simple job – the machine merely needs to compose a few intelligent and convincing jumlas for the government.

1.7 million jobs have been lost to automation since 2000, and this number will rise in the coming years.  American entrepreneur, Oren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence says that AI will be a serious problem for job holders in the US. A 2017 report by McKinsey showed loss of 73 million US jobs by 2030, and 120 million jobs in India. Clearly, a chaos in job market will happen due to emerging AI.

Conclusion

In this changing landscape it is very important to upgrade – today AI can generate images, chat, memes, etc., virtual conversation with any celebrity on Character.AI. Apps like GFPGAN can transform old pictures, Notion AI can compose texts, DALL.E 2 can generate images from natural language, DeepBeat can make music, and OpenAI Codex can write code. Notion AI is emerging as a copywriting tool – you cannot tell if it’s made by a computer.

Meaning: humans will sit and watch while AI works. We will only gain fat from all the laziness – at least this is what film director Andrew Stanton predicted in his movie wall-e. Of course it won’t be this dystopian – when machines entered market, it was said they will replace humans but the opposite happened and industrial revolution began.

Then entered computers – again it was said that they will replace humans, but India became software superpower as new jobs were created with it too. However, we are struggling in this social media age, but there is still hope. In the coming years, AI will consume jobs but will also create new ones.

I firmly believe that ultimately human intelligence will triumph – but after a setback. Since the technology is evolving at unbelievable rate, it becomes all the more important to upskill. If you cannot match up, then you will be left behind and we don’t want that.

Understanding AI is important, how it may impact your job sector and how you can emerge on top. In short, tighten your seatbelt, a storm is brewing.

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