Artificial intelligence hits the gas

Habit lurks, catching our fears and making them less painful. As life is today, so it will be tomorrow, we believe. No, it would be so unimaginably different we don’t think of it as intertwined with familiar everyday life, warns Our Scientist in Data, a website offering the latest scientific data on the world’s biggest problems. It suffices, he says, to pass, looking back, at the sub-moments of progress in the phrase of time, which radically changed the world.

The issue here is not the lawlessness of evolution — societies are constantly changing — but its acceleration. Because if for decades the immortality of angels and demons, the righteous and the infernals displaced them due to the cult of rapid changes, today this is happening at an exponential rate. faster and faster. Technological revolutions in the history line continue to intensify.

About 2.4 million years separate the use of stone tools (3.4 million years ago) from the controlled use of fire for cooking; 140,000 years ago the invention of the bed (200,000 years ago) from the bow; 30,000 years ago, the first musical instrument (flute) appeared from agriculture; 1,000 years of discovery of the wheel and glass writing; 260 years from the invention of printing from that of the steam engine; 110 years of use of the first microscope from the first serum. After 1800, the chronology of technological marvels is thick; Photography, Telegraph, Telephone, Electricity, Cars, Radio, Airplanes, Synthetic Fertilizers, Television, Penicillin, Atomic Bomb, Computer, DNA Double Helix, Man on the Moon, World Wide Web, World’s First Space Station, Touchscreen Smartphone, Ubiquitous artificial intelligence, widespread use of mRNA vaccines …

Medieval people did not even imagine the convenience of electric light and our ancestors a partially virtual interconnected world, with workers bereft of space, not in offices, but on rotating Internet platforms, and tech giants creating and controlling realities. What will come tomorrow? Nuclear fusion to produce energy, 3D virtual experiments, tele-justice, tele-connectedness, custom school rosters, the use of avatars on unpleasant tasks or unwanted meetings, omnipresent sensors, to spot every potential evil… AI He is the driving force behind every innovation. It radically transforms the world, it is the ultimate accelerator of developments and at the same time the provider of tremendous power to those who control it. In today’s era of exponential change, extreme fluidity and complexity, with interconnected crises, explosive risks and asymmetric threats, who controls the technologies is one of the most serious political issues.

Technology is becoming more and more powerful and unpredictable; In the past, progress was predictable and linear. A number of advanced chatbots write books, movie scripts, essays, university papers (perhaps freeing students from learning, researching, thinking, and writing?), composing pictures, videos, and music through words. Do they offer the services of a journalist, copywriter, lawyer, financial analyst, customer service agent, software engineer, digital content producer, graphic designer, teacher or accountant – will they make or replace employees more efficiently? Of course, if they are in malicious hands, they can intercept information, spoof, deceive, obfuscate, mislead, and incite. Technological developments run faster than regulatory frameworks. As long as societies live in anticipation of what is yet to come, as much as they are horrified by the possibility of Orwellian control of technology by totalitarian regimes, in the dystopia of machine autonomy, it is, in various ways, here and soon changes everything. An idea that might act preemptively against the negative repercussions behind all technology.

Speed ​​brings lightheadedness and excessive feelings of euphoria but also nausea; This is being treated. It is difficult to put the coin every time on the positive side.