What do you think about the next iteration of AI?

Predictive text has been in Google for several years. I’m not sure that’s AI. With all that’s going on in the world, I just don’t have the bandwidth to worry about AI too.

@janbb I am aware predictive text has been around, but over the last few weeks, it has grown exponentially. If you don’t want to have to give your energy to this topic, that’s completely fine. I’m a little puzzled over why you would bother answering the question then.

As long as AI doesn’t have control of nuclear weapons, doesn’t kill people and doesn’t make people lazier and dumber maybe it’ll be…ok?

I know t hat people are worried it’s going to write term papers for kids and some say they can differentiate between the AI written term papers (and college entrance essays) and the ones written by humans. I would think a human could have AI write it and then tweak it so it’s more personalized and perfect.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on Stephen Colbert last night and he was saying that Waze and other satellite apps are a form of AI. I didn’t know that they were. I love Waze and other traffic apps.

@Hawaii_Jake I wasn’t saying it’s a bad question or that it shouldn’t be raised. I thought you were asking for reactions to it. If not, feel free to flag me.

We only see the tip of the iceberg.

Not sure yet – it’s evolving so quickly that it isn’t standing still enough to actually have an opinion.

I think – at least for now – I would put it in the same category that I did when the internet was new 30 years ago: Interesting and new with great potential, but also potentially dangerous and evil.

So… ask me in 5 years.

I haven’t constructed the question well, or perhaps people are just not interested.

I thought the title question and then the details would lead people to read the very brief link. It has some blurbs about upcoming wearable AI that are incredibly revealing. One wearable AI gadget would record your entire day and then put it into text format for you and evaluate it.

I can’t tell from any of the answers here whether anyone read the link.

I hadn’t read the link @Hawaii_Jake but the thought of wearing something and it summing up my day is kind of creepy to me. Not that I have anything to hide, necessarily, but my problem is more with some other entity knowing everything about me, and where the information might be stored or going.

The future of AI is even more creepy, exciting, and unpredictable than any episode of Black Mirror. It’s not years away, it’s months.

I will be in Vegas next week for a conference with a large software firm and the focus is on AI.

I will come back and post on this in a week.

As someone who might be hiring a social media monkey, I am curious whether AI can mitigate a deficit of text and photo editing skills.

In response to the article, I don’t really enjoy voice input devices like Alexa. I can be lazy with my speech, and the effort it can sometimes take to give the right input is tedious for me. I also don’t care about recording my life and reviewing it. I do like the idea of virtual interfaces that rely on gestures, but that’s not really AI.

I found this article about how large language models work pretty fascinating although I didn’t finish it.

About 5 years ago I saw my first presentation on the topic of the time of the Singularity. The presenter defined it as a time when we would all be connected through AI and one of the things he showed us were glasses that right in front of our eyes we could call up the time or information we need. Kind of like how we use our smartphone now. He also indicated that the mic is always listening to us, anticipating needs.

The information sharing and lack of privacy seemed overwhelming to most of us.

My conclusion was either the world will be a much better place or much worse.

Some of the information sharing will be incredible. I think it will greatly advance science and medicine at an extremely rapid pace.

I saw in your article about AI tracking where we have been. That already is done to some extend with our phones, unless you are careful to set it up in a way that it doesn’t, and I think you would need to turn it off for authorities not to see what towers you are using for a signal and where you are.

I use Find My on my phone and I can see where my friends and family are in other countries let alone nearby.

I think for AI to improve the US and the world we need a dramatic shift in how we think of money, time, and government. If it all doesn’t happen in a synced and timely fashion; greed and crime will run rampant and there will be more division among the have and have nots.