A recent quote by the author Joanna Maciejewska has been quite viral and disruptive:
‘I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.’
Oddly, I am a fence-sitter in this discussion. I would not be comfortable with Artificial Intelligence being allowed independent critical decision making in, say, taking life and death decisions in patient care, autonomously controlling passenger vehicles or aircraft, automating nuclear defense and similar scenarios but I have no issue if AI enhances creativity.
Let mankind enjoy the creative side of AI while it automates the mundane, as long as the critical remains under human control.
That having been said, the progress made by AI in an extremely short time is simply astounding. Just a few years ago I was playing around with a few old images of Kashmir and managed to combine them into an animated GIF using freely available online tools.
Last week I was scrolling through my Insta feed and came across some of these images converted into seamless AI videos. The contrast with my primitive animation effort is at a stone-age vs spaceship level.
Mind absolutely BLOWN. And SPOOKED.
Suddenly the risks of malicious AI-enabled technology like DeepFakes seem like a clear and present threat. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has enabled manipulated media where your identity (face/voice/ID) can easily be hijacked for fraud and exploitation. If grainy century-and-older photographs can be so easily manipulated, what about the high-res videos you are posting daily on social media?
Some of the greatest minds who were instrumental in the development of Artificial Intelligence are now warning against its dangers.
The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people…. I thought it was way off. Obviously, I no longer think that ~ Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton aka the Godfather of AI was one of Google’s top artificial intelligence scientists before he quit his job to warn about the dangers of AI.
AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so lets get it right ~ Elon Musk
The development of full Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race ~ Stephen Hawking
If Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking agree on the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, maybe we should be afraid. Very afraid.
Humanity’s trump card : Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity ~ Anonymous