Ripples In A Teacup

Lots of promises are being made with regard to AI Chatbots , setting up sky-high expectations. Last November, when Sam Altman was asked what surprises the field would bring in 2024, he said that online chatbots like OpenAI’s  ChatGPT  will take “a leap forward that no one expected.” It is expected that A.I.-powered image generators  like DALL-E  and Midjourney will soon be able to instantly deliver videos as well as still images. These players will gradually merge with chatbots like ChatGPT. Chatbots will expand well beyond digital text by handling photos, videos, diagrams, charts and other media. They will exhibit behavior that looks more like human reasoning, tackling increasingly complex tasks in fields like math and science. As the AI technology moves into robots, chatbots will also help to solve problems beyond the digital world. AI is being advanced very quickly by tech companies like OpenAI, Google since AI technology relies on  neural networks , ma...

As a budding/wannabe software engineer, I am fascinated by AI, though it is very likely that hundreds of thousands of software engineers may become redundant on account of AI. An open letter —signed by Elon Musk and over 1,000 others with knowledge, power, and influence in the tech space—calls for the halt to all “giant AI experiments” for six months. According Musk et. al: AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity; Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks and could flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth, make it possible to   automate away all jobs, including the fulfilling ones;  Nonhuman minds might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace humans; Powerful AI systems should be developed only once humans are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable; AI labs and independent experts should use the 6-...