Hollywood likes to frame artificial intelligence (AI) as Terminator-like technology that will replace humans. Or eliminate them entirely. Elon Musk, who cofounded OpenAI (the U.S. startup company that created ChatGPT) has called AI “one of the biggest risks to the future of civilization.” “It has great, great promise and great capability,” Musk said, “but with that comes great danger.”
Okay, we’ve been warned. I think of AI as a man/machine partnership that can amplify our abilities exponentially – the way machines like tractors and cranes amplify our muscles a thousand-fold. You don’t build a city like Las Vegas using thousands of people unless they’re equipped with heavy-duty machines. AI will do for the Information Age – and the muscle known as our brain – what steam engines did for the Industrial Age.
I’ve written about technologies in This Space that have yet to rise to the levels of their hype – NFTs, cryptocurrency and the Metaverse, among others. Somehow, the way schools, corporate boardrooms and social media are buzzing about ChatGPT feels different than the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole some imagine it to be.
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