How artificial intelligence changes everything

Major language communication platforms such as ChatGPT will create a new kind of artificial intelligence, giving us the ease of generating ideas, innovations, and functionality that we have never imagined before. stock image

Last week I had a wonderful and stressful experience when it was Craig Mandy, the company’s former head of research and strategy MicrosoftMake me an offer for it GPT-4. This is the most advanced version of ChatGPT developed by the application company artificial intelligence OpenAI last November. Craig was preparing to brief the council. Of my wife’s museum, Planet of the World, of which she is a member, for what influence it will have chat in language and innovation.

Craig warned me before the demonstration began, “You have to realize that this thing is going to change everything in the way we do anything. I think it’s man’s greatest invention.” As he explained to me, major language communication platforms such as ChatGPT will create a new kind of artificial intelligence (Ai)which gives us ease in producing ideas, innovations and functions that we have never imagined before.

revolution

Then the show began. There I began to understand that perhaps his introduction was underestimating her revolution This is coming.

He first asked GPT-4 to make a summary of Planet World in 400 words. He did it great, in a matter of seconds. Then she asked him to do the same, limiting the words to 200 words. A few more seconds, and job done. Then he was asked to make similar presentations for the museum in Arabic, Chinese and English in Shakespeare’s time. Again, flawless execution within seconds.

I had a very hard time sleeping that night. Having seen an artificial intelligence system – the program, and chip And their connections – to produce such a level of original work in so many languages ​​in a matter of seconds reminded me of famous science fiction writer Arthur Clarke’s saying that “every sufficiently advanced technology becomes synonymous with magic”.

The second thing that comes to mind is a moment from the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the scene of a tornado sweeping everything and everyone, including Dorothy and Toto, away from the misty landscape of Kansas into the sparkling land of Oz.

Today we are on the verge of a similar whirlwind that will sweep away all of humanity. We are entering the Promethean era, one of those times in history when new tools, ways of thinking, or sources of energy lead to upheaval for all of humanity. In how we innovate, how we compete, how we collaborate, how we work, how we learn, how we rule and — yes — how we cheat, how we commit crime, how we wage war.

This Promethean moment is fueled not by a particular discovery, like the printing press or the steam engine, but by a great technological cycle. It is about our ability to sense, digitize, process and share information with the help of artificial intelligence. This technological cycle is applied everywhere.

It is what I called “the era of acceleration, empowerment and democracy.” Never before have people had such cheap tools to enhance their power at an ever-accelerating pace, with new possibilities extending into the personal and professional lives of an increasing number of people. The speed of change exceeds all expectations.

Scientific solutions

The possibilities of using new tools to solve the most diverse and seemingly intractable problems – from human biology to thermonuclear fusion to climate change – are staggering. To take one example that most people ignore: how Google AI group company Deep Mind used the AlphaFord system to solve one of science’s toughest problems with speed and efficiency that amazed scientists who had dedicated their lives to the problem in question.

This is the problem known as “protein folding”. Proteins are large, complex molecules made up of sequences of amino acids. They constitute the microscopic mechanisms that determine the functioning of the human body and all other forms of living matter.

However, what each protein can do depends on its three-dimensional structure. Once scientists gain insight into what the protein looks like, they can accelerate the ability to understand disease, develop new drugs, and solve other mysteries of life on Earth.

meta technology

The AlphaFord system is a descriptive technology: it has the ability to detect patterns that aid discoveries in any potential scientific field. ChatGPT is another example of meta technology.

But as Dorothy discovers when she is transported to the Land of Oz, there is a good wizard and a bad wizard out there, fighting each other to win her over. The same is true of ChatGPT and its competing products, such as Google’s Bard and ApphaFord.

Are we ready for what’s next? It doesn’t seem like it. We opened a debate about whether we should ban books, at the dawn of technology that could summarize or answer questions from anyone, anywhere, about the contents of any book, in a matter of seconds.

Artificial intelligence can be a tool or a weapon. The last powerful invention of man was nuclear energy, which can light up an entire country or destroy an entire planet. But nuclear power was created by governments that collectively imposed limits on its ability to spread into the wrong hands.

Instead, AI is the product of private, for-profit companies. The question that arises is how can a country or the entire world be governed when the versatile AI applications, tools and weapons are ruled by private corporations? We obviously need control mechanisms, but they shouldn’t be throwing the baby in the bath water.