Things A.I. will show us: from the nearest future to the ultimate goal of the technology
In this opinion piece, the writer focuses on the opportunities and upheavals to come as A.I.become more capable.
He organizes the piece by writing down how A.I. technology develops and what changes it would bring about in the near term, medium term, and in the long term.
Firstly, He writes about how A.I. will be in the near term. He expects that big tech companies would adopt A.I. technologies into their products. Microsoft and Google have announced plans to do so and Open AI offers an A.P.I., or application programming interface that other tech companies can use to plug GPT-4 into their apps and products.
Secondly, in the medium term, the writer mentions experts’ expectations about the A.I. influence on the job market. A.I. will be developed to do repetitive tasks, and this would increase productivity of some workers by liberating them from repetitive tasks. However, it would also replace others at the same time. Human-performed jobs from audio-to-text transcription and translation fields are especially in danger.
Plus, A.I. technology would develop in many aspects. Big tech companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta are developing systems that visualise what users describe in text, generating images or videos for it. Furthermore, other companies are building bots that can actually use websites and software applications as a human does.
Lastly, in the long term, companies like OpenAI or Deep Seek would push A.I. technology as far as they can. Their eventual goal is to create an artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I.-a machine that can do anything the human brain can do
However, A.I. experts suggest that the A.I. system should be created to go along with human values and goals. However, the experts worry that the A.I. system can easily be polluted by data from many people once it is released and many tech companies are not careful enough in developing the technology and its side effects.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/ai-chatbots-benefits-dangers.html