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These autonomous vehicles will be able to travel with zero direct human intervention, potentially creating more need for travel and transport, but paradoxically less need for drivers.
Google Glass was aborted in 2017, but in 2019 the company announced the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. With its smart glasses Google wants to help us make the right decisions and avoid risks.
Siri and Google Assistant already allow us instantaneous answers to a huge variety of questions. They're also able to perform tasks on our technological devices in our stead. How far can we take this, though?
Thermostats equipped with artificial intelligence will be able to regulate room temperature based on the number of entities present and each of their habits.
The great advantage of cryptocurrency is that it decentralizes the flow of money. With a bit of AI thrown in the mix, centralized institutions like national banks might not ever hold any power over the world's monetary supply again!
Currently, computers execute tasks based on commands and code. Artificial intelligence will aim to actually teach computers to think for themselves, using the human learning process as a model.
An accident in which a self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian has brought to the forefront serious ethical questions. For example, should self-driving cars sacrifice their passengers in order to not hit pedestrians, or should the safety of their passengers come first?
Some say AI would be able to act according to "cold logic" and just that. However, others say that this "logic" is still the fruit of human thought and therefore just as vulnerable to the pitfalls of human prejudice.
In what would be an ironic twist of life imitating art, our societies could at one point face the dilemma of having to choose between either creating, or destroying its artificial intelligence, as portrayed in films like 2017's 'Blade Runner: 2049.'
A German artist Boris Eldagsen carried out an experiment by entering the competition at the Sony World Photography Awards with an AI-generated image titled 'Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.' He kept it a secret until he was announced the winner, and then revealed that it was an AI image and rejected the award. He explained that he wished to find out if competitions such as this were prepared to deal with the emergence of AI technology that can create incredibly realistic images. Eldagsen knew his actions would cause controversy but he hoped to kickstart a "discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter – or would this be a mistake?"
In November 2022, the company OpenAI launched ChatGPT, and later a more advanced version called GPT-4 in March 2023. The AI-powered chatbot is programmed to simulate human conversation. No software has ever been able to so convincingly provide human-like answers, with an almost limitless resource of data to work with. To a certain degree, it can even write essays and stories, signaling an era in which many jobs could be taken over by AI.
See also: What exactly is ChatGPT, and what are the concerns?
Another interesting development is that there is now a robot that is a bonified artist. Ai-Da was created in the UK and released in 2019. She is able to create visual art with her painting arm and communicate about her work. She has had exhibitions of her impressive creations around the world. Ai-Da and other AIs with creative abilities bring about existential questions about the very nature of art.
The US Treasury began using AI to fight financial crimes at the end of 2022 in response to the spike in fraud against taxpayers' money during the pandemic. But this isn’t the type of AI that we use when we employ ChatGPT to write our emails-this is machine learning AI that is adept at analyzing data and hidden patterns at a far greater speed than humans. As a result, it has helped recover US$1 billion worth of check fraud in 2024, which is triple the amount caught in the previous fiscal year.
Robot assistants, self-driving cars, smart glasses: what will our lives look like once artificial intelligence really becomes part of our daily lives? Will it be a blessing or a curse? The developments in AI over the past couple of years are both cause for celebration and concern, as the industry plows ahead without sufficient regulation. ChatGPT's launch has put a powerful AI tool in our hands, and most of us never expected it to be so advanced. It raises a number of ethical concerns, as well as the very real possibility that robots will soon be taking over our jobs. At the same time, AI could be used for amazing advancements in medicine, technology, and education, improving our quality of life.
Click on and join us as we explore what our future with AI might hold, both good and bad.
New versions of smartwatches, enhanced by AI, will help us make better decisions concerning our health based on criteria that we might find hard to measure accurately on our own, such as our heartbeat and blood pressure.
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The introduction of ChatGPT has provided us with an exemplary AI tool, showcasing its formidable capabilities.
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Robot assistants, self-driving cars, smart glasses: what will our lives look like once artificial intelligence really becomes part of our daily lives? Will it be a blessing or a curse? The developments in AI over the past couple of years are both cause for celebration and concern, as the industry plows ahead without sufficient regulation. ChatGPT's launch has put a powerful AI tool in our hands, and most of us never expected it to be so advanced. It raises a number of ethical concerns, as well as the very real possibility that robots will soon be taking over our jobs. At the same time, AI could be used for amazing advancements in medicine, technology, and education, improving our quality of life.
Click on and join us as we explore what our future with AI might hold, both good and bad.