Detroit Today: What does the rise of ChatGPT, AI mean for our daily lives?
Is the exponential advancement of artificial intelligence a good thing?
Artificial intelligence’s capabilities are changing at a blistering pace. AI can mimic voices in a way that is indistinguishable from a human, create artwork — though not without controversy — and potentially foster deep bonds with humans à la the 2013 Spike Jonze film “Her.”
General public awareness and interaction with AI have increased in the form of ChatGPT. The technology is improving fast, with ChatGPT developer OpenAI having said that the fifth version of the platform will be more human-like and make fewer errors than previous generations.
Listen: What is AI and how do humans feel about its evolution?
Guests
Jacy Reese Anthis is a sociologist and statistician at the University of Chicago. He says AI has some unpredictable outcomes, which is different from much of the technology we have.
“In the case of AI, it’s [not] an engineering problem, it’s more like growing. It’s like growing a plant in your garden, or it’s like raising a human child. You know about where it started. You know what you fed the human and the plant, you know what sort of data or information it’s been exposed to…but you don’t know necessarily how it will end up,” says Anthis.
Greg McGuire is the managing director at Mcity, a test site for automated vehicles and mobility projects. He says that AI can easily learn skills at a faster rate than humans.
“These AI algorithms are very quickly outperforming these traditional hand-coded algorithms that humans have spent a decade or more developing,” says McGuire.
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