#DEVDiscuss: The Future of AI

I think AI will for the most part bring a huge wave of productivity boost to the economy. As AI evolves I do feel we will experience some pain as people need to retrain with relevant skills. For those that work with computers will find an increased need to update their skills.

An impact I have seen from AI is artists have already become so confused between human created art and AI art, that a moderator of an art forum banned an artist for uploading an image he deemed to be AI art. The artist had to show proof with an adobe file showing all the different layers of the image in question.

Recently copyright proposals have gone through which protect human generated art, but AI art can not be copyrighted unless modified by a human in a photo editor first. I approve of this move, AI needs guard rails and nerfing its results from a commercial standpoint.

This tweet about GPT is thought provoking:

Peter Nixey

@peternixey

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Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

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14:47 PM - 26 Mar 2023

AI will automate processes, catapult the careers of creators that probably wouldn’t have gain the fame they have if they existed in other eras. I mean without YouTube or Tik Tok, music artists like Justin Bieber, Billie Ellish, Chloe x Halle, and Lizzo would have not been famous. It’ll also cause lawsuits about ownership. It’s like how Napster got sued for copyright(for the Gen Z readers, Napster was pretty much the “Spotify” of the late 90’s-early 00’s). Overall, AI will have good and negative impacts on society just like the other tech tools that have been created.

The future of AI in my view is a complicated and diverse field to exhaust in on writing or to view in one scope. With recent technological advancement and various automations leading to the rise of more and more superior AIs, it is left to uncertainty of the future of AI. If taken into consideration with the given time periods, there will be less to no great impact and effect in 10 years as compared to 100 years.

In my opinion, the future of AI is a subject I have no clear views on yet. Whether it is for the good or bad, I do not know yet. Recent discussions on various social platforms are focused on whether AI will put people out of jobs and or take over the human race in the long run. With this, the evolution of AI needs to be going at a very fast rate that I think cannot be achieved currently. Yes, some positions in the past have been rendered useless by the adoption of various technologies, but not also entirely. Not every organization, country and workplace is on the adoption of these technologies and some cannot also afford these automation tech and AI capabilities.

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann

I never thought I'd say this: but get the regulators in quick.

AI is moving fast. Very fast. And as this intelligence model gets more and more intelligent, what do you think is going to happen to the pace of this movement?

ChatGPT & Co need to slow. the fuck. down.

They dropped an API at the beginning of March. That's enough game changing for one year. We're going to see this thing everywhere, powering every piece of software and every digital interaction that we make.

Everything. And it won't be long before it's packaged up into a docker container and runnable on embedded devices even without an internet connection.

The economy needs some time to catch up before they advance this thing any further.

It's already too late though - this API drop should have been way more controlled than it has been.

Coupled it with the release of OpenAI's Whisper - as a prime example, the administration workforce (reception, PA, secretaries etc.) just became waaay more competitive overnight.

That's just one example off the top of my head that I can think of.

I really think it's pretty imposible to predict how the AI would affect our society. We are at beginning of this technologie and we probably yet don't see all the possibility. We will probably all be wrong on most of our points, and right on a little.

Despite that, my guest is that a large part (~80% ~90%) of white collar work will desappear, and the remaining part would do the same work with the assistance of AI.
That would during a sort-term period create a huge wave of unemployement.
Then i think it could change the way we considers and sorts differents jobs.

Today the jobs wich appear like "premium-jobs" are in business, trading, engineering ...
But in a world where those jobs seems to be replaced, the society maybe will valuate jobs that can't be replaced. I think of jobs where the social part is huge (like the hairdresser with all the small-talks and gossip).
That would also affect jobs where there is a big coimplexity in material handling and mouvement (arts and craft) since AI can't create it on its own, and it would be hard to automate.

I'm a product of the age of the internet, when it was referred to as the Information Super Highway (late 90's, early 2000's). I've been on the web since before MySpace 🤣

AI/ML brings with it some amazing possibilities and surely some incredible benefits (and scary ideas) for every man/woman/child.

The only other technology that has had a greater impact is the evolution of the Smartphone - what was that? 2008? We carry the incredible processing power of The Web in our pockets. The ability to capture and cherish live moments with the press of a button. Answers to any burning question just a few words away.

Chat-GPT, MidJourney, etc. have unleashed some frightful concepts. Instantaneous malicious code writing. Educational manipulation and cheating. Angry Artists and copyright infringements & lawsuits.

When Web3.0 was the "buzzword" sometime last year, I knew it was fizzle out. Most buzzwords do. But AI/ML are here to stay - it's not buzz or click-baitey. It has some serious impact in all our daily/hobby/professional lives.

It's been an amazing journey so far, to witness first hand, the Evolution & Growth of the Internet and the Internet of Things. I've been a web developer for almost 20 years. I am overjoyed and thrilled to read the news headlines every single morning, just to see what was created yesterday.

At some point not so long ago humans thought that electricity would make every job obsolete. It was true for some jobs, but lots of new ones appeared along with new challenges. Will AI change the world? Yes, it already does so. Will it solve many and many problems? Yes, I believe it will; as well as it will create many new problems for humans to solve.

I'm probably going to be a little more pessimistic than most.

I think the proliferation of AI will make more and more lazy people in the development like than in others. For our generation it should be fine, but for the one to come or even for the one who is currently self-training, the temptation to let an AI give them rotten codes will be great and they will not even know that these codes must be optimized. Conclusion, code quality fuck.

For optimism

On the other hand, since the use of AI is more and more accessible, we should be inundated with tools of all kinds that greatly facilitate life. Many monopolies will fall (in my opinion) to the profile of these tools which will do better, faster and probably cheaper than those of the big companies. in other words, the SAS will explode.

Personally, I'm excited because I feel that I can create things and many things will be created by others to speed up my workflow and allow me to focus more on conception rather than execution.

I have been working for several months on a CSS Framework to avoid my discomfort with bootstrap and tailwind. Because of this, I use heavily on chatGPT to find ways to improve it and do it better and easier (from my point of view) than both cited previously.
Suffice to say that if I like to develop, I am the impatient type who is always in a hurry to see a prototype, the idea in life size. Quickly create funniest UIs is my small goal right now...

Sorry for my bad english ;-)

With advancements now occurring in weeks rather than months, I'm impressed by the rapid progress of the AI industry. There are, however, some concerns raised by this acceleration.

Here is the video I created about AI economy and what are the current AI skills required on the job market

It is encouraging to see that the UK government is embracing AI and is aware of the need for a smooth transition. To assist individuals in adjusting to AI-assisted jobs, governments are investing in AI tutors or utilizing universal credit as an alternative.

Overall, I am positive about the potential of the new AI economy and believe that responsible deployment of AI will lead to a better future for all.

I think the AI like machine translation service it replaced the interpreter in small word and sentence will help you in that, but you can't translate whole the book with translator like pro interpreter, so won't Someone who knows nothing in the field will engage with pro programmers to build something upgradable like react or WordPress, and 😅 it's not Unreliable, you will be disappointed.
I and my friend tried to cheat in exam with it then we miserable failed. 🗿💔
the companies don't want mistake turn their system down or their services, website etc.
that in programming field

How does this topic make you feel? Scared, excited, optimistic, cynical, or skeptical? Or something else?

A little bit scared at first sight, but now just optimistic. I mean, this is not common in our lifetime. In 2 or 3 years the software development workflow will change. Because things are exponential, and people are building things on top of other people, and so on.

Some tasks will be easier to do, and now us (software developers) will focus on more conceptual things.

For as long as I can remember I have heard the concept of the AI revolution. I thought we were living it throughout 2010s (with optical object recognition), or in some year: 2018, 2019 (with large language models). But I feel more than ever that this moment is what they meant.

And well, one day it will go away like the Internet revolution and we will see it more normal than ever.