Blog Post #7 The Age of AI

In the film, In the Age of AI, we see the complex issue of the new realm of artificial intelligence arise.  It is a documentary that explores the impact of artificial intelligence on society and the economy. The film features interviews with AI experts, entrepreneurs, and researches who discuss the potential benefits and risks of AI, as well as the ethical and social implications of its widespread adoption. The documentary explores various applications of AI, including autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and finance. It also examines the ways in which AI is changing the nature of work and the job market, and the potential impact of these changes on individuals and society as a whole. 

There are many positive attributes regarding artificial intelligence. In the documentary, it shows how you can get a loan in only eight seconds using AI, where as before, it was an entire long process. It also has the capability to replace human drivers to reduce human error on the highways. A company called Embark, has already created self driving trucks to deliver long distance items and commercial goods from California to Arizona. The path is created by a human and then delivered by an AI computerized truck. The truck is said to be 10 times safer than a human driver. So, to reduce traffic fatalities which is the number one fatality in the United States, the solution is to make artificial intelligence take over the highway to do the long distance rides and deliveries. 

Additionally, the impact of AI on health care has been extremely beneficial so far. AI has improved doctors errors and has helped create care plans and cures for cancer patients like never before. It is also able to predict which patients need surgery and which would be better without the surgery. After doctors went through the number of patients who have had surgery regarding breast cancer, AI discovered that only 10% of those people actually needed the surgery and the other people would have been better without it. It can also predict which patient's cancer is more likely to come back and when exactly that may happen. 

Even the best of us do not have enough computer power in our heads, AI makes it very helpful for us since it is much more efficient and intelligent. AI can solve 10 advanced mathematical problems and principals in just under one minute, when it may take a human 5 minutes to do one problem. AI can process information a billion times faster than us. AI is able to think, imagine, and see things in ways that we never have before, which helps us in turn, be more creative. We now have new approaches to climate change and cancer cures, two very pressing and current issues in our world, thanks to artificial intelligence. One interviewer from the documentary said "You would have to be a huge pessimist to not find the good news in AI."

However, with all of these amazing things about AI, there are also some scary cons to it. This is only the early decade of a multiword adjustment. That being said, we don't know much about it yet, its powers, what it is truly capable of. We all have an underlying fear that technology is going to take over the world one day, and I believe with AI, this is actually going to happen. The most scary thing about it too, is that there is no turning back now, because it is already here. There are many ethical issues with the use of AI such as people cheating. People are cutting their work short with the help of AI which is a good thing, but also a negative thing for obvious reasons. AI is also said to threaten 50% of jobs in the next 15 years. Not just blue collar jobs, but mainly white collar jobs due to there analytical process that can easily be replaced by a machine. 

Something that has recently just happened on to all users on Snapchat, 332 million people, is we now have our own personal AI Chatbox. It wasn't something we had to accept, it just appeared on our Snapchat screens this past Friday at the same time for everyone. You can not remove this new feature. It stays at the very top of your screen labeled "My AI" before all of your recent chatted people on the app. You can't even move it to be at the bottom of your friends list, it will only stay at the top. You can ask it anything like how you would ask ChatGPT for example. But now, it is at your finger tips, available for everyone to use that owns a Snapchat account. I provided an example of some questions you can ask it too image on the left. The response time was nearly a few milliseconds. This is insanity to me. 

Since the start of our world there has been five beginnings, these beginnings mark periods of significant change to human existence. According to Robert Kelly, the order of these beginning's are technology, culture, agriculture, the state, and finally the fifth beginning we are in right now, cooperation. With this, I would be surprised if artificial intelligence doesn't become the new sixth beginning. Overall, artificial intelligence presents a thought-provoking look at the opportunities and challenges presented by this rapidly evolving technology, and offers a glimpse into the future of AI and its potential impact on our lives.