I feel like I've been hearing someone say AI is going to change everything for years now and we've had some cool advancements like better language translations, voice emulation, image generation and enhancement, some barebones essay writing and better/quick search summarization but aside from that, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that I am aware of.
Someone mentions how AI has made big advances in some industries for certain niche tasks. That's good but again not life changing.
Is AI actually going to change much or is it going to be as it already has. Rather incremental, fairly niche and nothing earth shattering?
If AI is truly going to be groundbreaking stuff that'll change everything what are some sorts of skills/knowledge that will be useful in knowing in the future to make use of the coming "AI age"?
I really feel like AI is just a giant scam to make techbros tons of money and give them more influnece in politics, tbh. I feel lke it's really being overstated.
Think of it as more of a new field that has recently become more than an academic curiosity and can be applied in the real world. That alone is a huge step and now it's going to have itself applied in whatever way possible to narrow down the best use cases.
In the short term, AI industry boom as people throw money around trying to jump on new thing. Which isn't that unusual but I have to say this one's got legs. It's early stages industry-wise but it's just too malleable and can be applied to too many things to be ignored.
It may ultimately be temporary or models will develop quickly, and what we see now is it in its infancy compared to what will come, but that temporary is no short time span. My guess, 50+ years minimum that it's going to be around for. It dies by legislation if anything and there's no way to put it back in the box and forget about it.
Not true AI yada yada but the poiont remains. It's not going anywhere anytime soon, industry will build around it because it can be applied so freely and legislation will kill it or corral it once some truly big players emerge within its industry.
It has so many uses from the mundane to the magnificent that pure probability has it making a significant change somewhere. Part of the industry building is just finding those magnificent uses.
You're on the money. AI is new but, combined with robotics and inevitable progress in computation, has almost unlimited potential since it's basically a technique to get computers to learn and do what humans can do, except millions of times more quickly.
We're in the early 90s Internet era of AI. Give it a couple more decades to really mature into the true beast it certainly can, and will, be. Unless, like you mentioned, governments kill it.
Governments cannot afford to kill it because it powers new age weapons, whether that be psychological or more conventional kinetic ones. Any world power that bans AI is just placing itself at a huge military disadvantage.
Don't even have to think of it that far. If any of them want to ban it (for ANY concern) they have to get it done unilatertally across the globe and even if they did manage to get that done it would still be developed out of sight and every government would still have their hands all over it. They simply can't afford to based on criminal elements within citizenry, nevermind foreign powers.
I agree completely and that's one reason I don't think they will, or even can (unless it becomes a threat to them, or they're under foreign control, then they mighttry to restrict the commoner's access to it). At the end of the day, much like with the Internet, they can restrict it as much as they want, but there will always be someone able to take some sort of advantage of the technology.