Major study suggests that AI is at the point of inflection.
A new research on artificial intelligence and its impacts warns that AI has come to a tipping point and can no longer overlook its negative effects.
The Broad Picture
For all the Science Fiction concerns of ultra-intelligent machinery or huge job losses from automation, all of which need much more powerful artificial intelligence than has been produced up to now, the biggest problem might be what happens if the AI don’t operate as intended.
History: The AI100 project — founded by Eric Horvitz and sponsored by the Stanford Human-Centered AI (HAI) as Microsoft’s first scientific leader — aims to give a long-term study of a technology that looks progressed by day. Hence, the project is the first to take a step.
The recent update issued on Thursday, — the second in a planned 100-year period — collected feedback from an expert group to assess the status of AI from 2016 to 2021.
Toby Walsh, an IP specialist at the University of New South Wales and a part of the standing committee on the project said “It is effectively IPCC for the AI community.
What is happening……
What is happening? In the last five years, in particular, the field of natural language processing (NLP) — the capacity of AI to understand and create human language — has been remarkably advancing.
The experts have determined “To date, AI has been of fairly modest economic consequence,’ but the technique has progressed so far that it has “the real-world influence on people, institutions and society.”
Catch
AI has reached a stage where its disadvantages in the real world are more impossible to ignore — and harder to halt.
“You only have to read the journal and see the actual hazards and risks.
“You only have to open the paper and see the genuine hazards and threats to the democracy, mental health and more,” adds Walsh.
Entre the lines: what will happen when the AI is embedded in everyday life before their quirks have completely sorted out is the most pressing issue.
Context: Australia’s move is to seek AI for resolving difficult societal issues such as the pandemic — what the panel refers to as “techno-solutionism” — rather than the treatment of AI: one instrument among many.
Whether governments or corporations heed to criticisms like Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who, earlier this week, may jeopardise human rights — in particular in law enforcement — in the sale and use of AI.
