I thought that the topic of AI would fade with the passage of time, but I didn't expect that it has always been "quite busy". Under the "ignition" of ChatGPT, AI officially drove from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and also attracted the attention and "ride" of many people.
Especially in the past two months, the development of AI seems to be like the magic lamp of wisdom Aladdin, whether it is ChatGPT out of the circle or the image processing tool Midjourney, it gives people a bright feeling.
Technology has always been a double-edged sword.
Many people are not familiar with AI tools, and AI scams have already come. Someone was deceived by 4.3 million in 10 minutes, someone used "AI for face"! 9 seconds were cheated out of 2.45 million yuan...
Before the Q&A was not answered, now some people use AI to spread rumors~
At one time, we also laughed at AI painting for showing a kind of beauty that doesn't care about life or death.
In a few days, people's paintings can already be auctioned for an astonishing high price of 3 million! It took a minute to take away the jobs that many painters have worked hard for decades? Interestingly, I also signed myself.
It is reported that this "Portrait of Edmund Bellamy" is one of a group of Belamy family portraits created by Obvious using AI algorithms. Obvious is made up of three 25-year-old artists who are dedicated to exploring the interface between art and AI, and their method of painting is the deep learning model GAN (Generative Adversarial Network).
Artificial intelligence today
The theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence are eventually advancing at a pace that computing power cannot match. Computers aren't sophisticated enough to store and process the vast amounts of data researchers need to conduct real-world tests.
Surprisingly, the next big stage for AI appeared in the chess world decades later. The IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue, pitted against then-chess world champion Garry Kasparov.
Deep Blue lost its first game in 1996, but in true cinematic fashion, it triumphed in the New York rematch. Today, the technology is the standard for any online chess site, but Deep Blue's victory was a landmark at the time.
It demonstrates the ability of AI to make decisions based on changing situational factors. The event inspired further global research, and new implementations quickly surfaced.
Since then, mathematicians and programmers have been expanding the field. Computing power grows exponentially every year and allows for the "impossible" of the past.
Advantages of artificial intelligence
People have always had a socially accepted hatred of busy work. This is the preferred goal to emphasize typical office clichés. AI takes on a lot of this busy job and puts it on the cutting board.
Now it has entered the fourth revolutionary process - the era of artificial intelligence. Due to the birth of ChatGPT, new artificial intelligence technologies have once again attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. Now that everyone is engaged in smart scenic spots, it is also very possible that some of the work will be replaced by ChatGPT in the future.
There's no denying that AI can improve personal and professional efficiency when used in the right places. AI performs numbing tasks without wasting human resources and completes months of calculations in seconds.
Automate processes
By automating processes, AI can free up employees to work on more creative or socially nuanced tasks.
A typical example of this automation is chatbots and customer support. More than 60% of consumers prefer chatbots over waiting for humans.
Reduce human error
Prolonged mental activity can lead to feelings of fatigue, similar to building muscles. This is known as cognitive fatigue and can negatively affect energy and concentration. The mind subconsciously becomes lazy. After slowly accumulating, the errors have a way of stacking on top of each other, just like a bad loan. A small mistake can snowball and cause huge losses in the future.
The data-heavy task of processing endless columns of numbers exacerbates cognitive fatigue. The brain starts making bad assumptions to create shortcuts.
And the "brain" of AI does not get tired from repetition. If the program and input data are correct, then nine times out of ten it will produce accurate results.
Help humans make better decisions
Human error goes beyond collecting and organizing data. Even the most carefully documented information, incorrect interpretation, can ruin it. When humans look at data, their innate biases and intuitions can see fictional trends.
For example, the human brain tends to emphasize recent events. This phenomenon is called recency bias. Instead of looking at the trends of the past decade, humans put unreasonable gravity on the past four months.
Of course, in some cases, recent trends are more important. However, humans cannot assess the value of these trends numerically. At least not as fast as artificial intelligence. The AI decision-making program makes recommendations for choices based entirely on all available data.
Advances in digital assistance
Some millennials may remember using incredibly large maps on road trips or printing directions from Google.
Today, iFLYTEK is also using AI to make efforts in the medical field, and its blockbuster intelligent medical assistant robot has passed the comprehensive written examination of the national clinical practitioner qualification examination with excellent results, exceeding 96.3% of human candidates, proving the knowledge level, logical reasoning and learning ability of artificial intelligence in the medical field.
Meantime. The leapfrog advancement of AI is that we can provide suggestions based on the database searched in the past.
While there is some debate about the ethics of this information gathering, digital assistance has proven invaluable in improving the convenience of everyday life.
Disadvantages of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence has brought new convenient living standards and helped society progress at an alarming rate. However, like a ticking time bomb, developing technology has troubling consequences.
Unemployment is rising
As more and more specialized tasks become automated, businesses have less need for human involvement. An obvious side effect is the expected increase in unemployment.
The World Economic Forum estimates that AI will create as many as 58 million jobs. However, AI will primarily replace low-skilled workers who are not qualified to fill newly created positions.
Increased sophistication of cyber threats
At present, scammers have used intelligent AI face changing and onomatopoeia technology to pretend to be friends to commit fraud. Today's topic #AI fraud success rate is close to 100%#, rushing to Weibo hot search
Implementing machine learning in cyberattacks means that each attack is tailored to the target.
There are no emotions or morals
A lack of emotion can hinder the ability to form morality. Artificial intelligence aims to analyze and learn from the big data provided. Even if AI was created in pursuit of justice, it mathematically analyzes old precedents without dissecting the current social landscape. This justice will be an arithmetic justice, judged without regard to moral correctness.
Similar reasoning applies to AI that cannot replicate true creativity. AI can produce something new by fusing millions of creative works together. However, this is just a very complex mathematical reproduction. Machines cannot replicate the emotions and spirits that guide true creativity.
Information Security Issues
In this era of audience awareness, many service providers or network companies use the collected information for user portraits in order to create unique personalized recommendations, and collect too much personal information, which will cause the leakage of user privacy information and pose a certain threat to information security.
Artificial intelligence looks glamorous, but its development has spanned many years of endeavor. The extent to which it has changed our daily lives and society is staggering, but the field is constantly evolving. Whether this evolution has brought more benefits than losses to humans will depend on how it develops from now on and how people use it.