A major new report on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) has just been released. Think of it as the AI equivalent of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, in that it identifies where AI is at today, and the promise and perils in view.
From language generation and molecular medicine to disinformation and algorithmic bias, AI has begun to permeate every aspect of our lives.
The report argues that we are at an inflection point where researchers and governments must think and act carefully to contain the risks AI presents and make the most of its benefits.
A century-long study of AI
The report comes out of the AI100 project, which aims to study and anticipate the effects of AI rippling out through our lives over the course of the next 100 years. The study was performed in 2021, and three more years have passed.
AI has only just begun. We confront it every day on the telephone, in chats, on the internet, when we drive our car, with image recognition and video surveillance of all public places. Police use it for investigations and witnessing crimes at a later date. Our smart speakers listen all the time, although they only respond if you use a 'trigger word" such as. "Alexa'.
All of these uses are annoying and frustrating, however, it will become much worse when AI makes decisions without human oversight.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY invited leading thinkers from several institutions to begin a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live, and play.
This effort, called the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, is the brainchild of computer scientist and Stanford alumnus Eric Horvitz who, among other credits, is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
"We won’t be putting the genie back in the bottle," he said. "AI technology is progressing along so many directions and progress is being driven by so many different organizations that it is bound to continue. AI100 is an innovative and far-sighted response to this trend–an opportunity for us as a society to determine the path of our future and not to simply let it unfold unawares."
The unknown danger of an AI obsessing over a problem ignoring the goal it has been assigned. This is called Wireheading
Wireheading is akin to the high of a psychedelic and can be compared to hallucinating
Uses for Artificial Intelligence
There are already many practical uses for AI, some very beneficial and some annoying.
Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Automation-spurred job loss Deepfakes, Privacy violations, Algorithmic bias caused by bad data, Socioeconomic inequality, Market volatility, Weapons automatization, and Uncontrollable self-aware AI.
Is the horse out of the barn? The longer we wait to regulate the worse it will be.
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