IS AI THE GREAT EQUALIZER?

IS AI THE GREAT EQUALIZER?

In this issue I will give a high level overview of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. It has been all over traditional media, social media and being discussed in boardrooms all over the world. Use this overview and your additional knowledge on the subject to validate or contradict what I propose below.

I propose that AI will be an equalizing force for:

• those that have not had the benefit of expensive education or have the money to hire expensive copy writers, designers, dietitians, video production people and more
• those with less resources to get the medical advice and attention that has alluded this group until now
• those that are in school districts that attract less funds for academic development
• those that have not developed the academic skills afforded to those with private tutors.

WHAT IS ALL THE HYPE ABOUT?

ChatGPT. This is the application that is getting the more attention. It is a freeAI chatbot developed by OpenAI. GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, this indicates it is a large language model based on a deep learning algorithm. Its popularity has risen exponentially since its release in November 2022. This is due to its ability to "understand" and generate conversational and human-like responses to text-based inputs.?ChatGPT for example can access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services to respond to a users requests in much less time that it would take people to do.

So, with more and more organizations adopting AI, many questions arise. Will AI be able to fill jobs currently held by humans? What can and can’t natural language chat AI do? Other major concerns about ChatGPT come from those whose jobs it might replace instead of enhance jobs.

WHO ARE THE PLAYERS?

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s are the 800lb gorilla. It’s primary competitors are Google’s Bard, Baidu’s Ernie, DeepMind’s Sparrow and Meta’s Blenderbot.

Google’s Bard ChatGPT’s main competitor is Bard, Google’s AI natural language chatbot.

• Google is incorporating Bard into search, however, Bard focuses more on creating prose that sounds like a human could have spoken it naturally and less on being able to answer any question. Bard is built on Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications.

Baidu’s Ernie The Chinese search engine Baidu plans to add a chatbot called Ernie. Don’t underestimate this company. While not looking as impressive as the American products, the Chinese don’t always show everything they have.

DeepMind’s Sparrow

• OpenAI also competes with DeepMind, an artificial intelligence research laboratory owned by Alphabet; however, the two organizations are significantly different in terms of their aims. DeepMind focuses more on research and has not yet come out with a public-facing chatbot. DeepMind does have Sparrow, a chatbot designed specifically to help AI communicate in a way that is helpful, correct and harmless.

Meta’s BlenderBot

• Meta released BlenderBot in August 2022. Blenderbot is from the company behind Facebook and focuses on being able to chat, providing short, conversational replies rather than full paragraphs.

What about Apple?

• According to?The New York Times, Apple is working on leveraging the tech it has, especially Siri, to create a ChatGPT rival. However, more information about what the final product might look like is not flowing from the company.

IS IT INTELLIGENT!

According to the Miriam Webster Dictionary, the definition of intelligence is:

-the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situation

-the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests).

The current thought is that the model doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, but it does know what symbols (words) are likely to come after one another based on the data set it was trained on, however today, the AI does venture where the original programmers did not intend it to. A good example is learning a language that was not programmed into the original code. The AI felt it was important to learn due to a task it was asked to perform.

It is suggested that the current generation of artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Google, Bard and others, don’t really make intelligently informed decisions; instead, they just regurgitate words found on the internet or in other digitial documents. Isn’t that what research is all about? Universities, students, common people and companies utilize them to create text, powerpoints presentations, videos, pictures, and more in a matter of minutes that would take a person or team hours or days to produce.

There have been language translation software around for years, however today AI can understand the emotion behind any written text. This makes it possible to generate appropriate responses, making it a helpful tool for things like social media, customer service, etc. Not to mention developing a good bedside manner for the medical professionals by offering tips on how to talk to patients about their conditions in compassionate, clear language, and it can read lengthy reports or studies and?summarize?them in the blink of an eye. The tech can even explain its reasoning through problems in a way that requires some measure of human-style intelligence. A doctor and Harvard computer scientist says GPT-4 has better clinical judgment than "many doctors." Yes, that is here now!

If we base intelligence on test scores (as many of our education systems do), then check this out:

• It could pass the bar exam
• It scored a 1410 on the SAT
• It aced the AP tests for biology, art history, environmental science, macroeconomics, psychology, US history
• Passed the US medical licensing exam with flying colors — and diagnosed a 1 in 100,000 condition in seconds

CAN IT PRODUCE SOMETHING

Parsing complexity

Big data has come to the mainstream through initiatives to digitize increasing numbers of historical documents, company financial filings, everyday news and knowledge such as the Library of Congress’s collection of millions of newspaper pages and court records dating back to the 19th century. For researchers, journalists, financial analysts, medical professionals and more, this is at once a problem and an opportunity: there is much more information, and currently it takes many people to turn this data into useful knowledge. AI can do in minutes what used to take interns, clerical staff, researchers, and analysts days. Media professionals are using it daily to create the content for their stories.

Video production

AI can generate pictures and video faster easier and many times it is of a higher quality than that created by a company’s marketing team. It is possible to generate a digital scene for a livestreaming that includes the creation of interactive content that is all generated by AI. It is such good quality that you may not even be able to tell whether it is a real person doing the broadcasting or an AI generated image.

Can It Think and brainstorm...Yes!

Generative AI has the ability to self-prompti. This means that the language model has been developed so it can execute prompts that will lead to new prompts based on an initial input. Now think of a prompt as a thought, by putting them together it allows the AI to think, perceive results and repercussions and then take action (write new code or correct existing code) to meet the needs of the request.

AI today is truly powerful when combined with tools that search the web or the ability to test written code. The language model becomes an equalizer that can do much more than just generate text or code.

When we ask AI a question or to perform a task, we are asking it to think. When talk to AI like we would speak to a person, we are asking it to perceive, think, and act. OpenAI developer Andrej Karpathy, predictis a future of “AI Orgs” made up of “AI CEOs,” “AI CFOs,” and so on.

If you want to write a business plan, that's going to take you a week — it's a lot of brainstorming, talking to a lot of people, and market research. AI will do it in 30 minutes.

HR teams use certain algorithms to try to identify the best candidates, because it's overwhelming. If they're using algorithms, why can't applicants also use algorithms?

Can AI show emotion!

When AI is combined with robotics like Ameca that can show human like expressions and do voice cloning, you will have AI that can mimic your voice and show emotions. So much for AI not being able to take action.

Can it teach us something new

Learning something new is a form of intelligence, but being able to teach someone something new is a manner in which they can understand takes a higher level of intelligence. AI will answer all of your questions, and go as deep as you want. It will give real-life examples that you can understand and relate to, and define terminology that you may have long misunderstood.

The new education

Information that was once dispensed in the classroom is now everywhere: online, in chatbots and within AI robots. What educators must now do is show students how to think creatively and critically as well as how to identify what information to trust and what not to, and how to tell the difference. Teachers are no longer gatekeepers of information, but facilitators of our transition to utilizing AI, not becoming subservient to it!

AI will be in the classroom sooner than later, we need to accept the challenge and utilize it correctly.

BUSINESS HAS FIGURED IT OUT

Business has already identified how to incorporate (monetize) AI into many products. The importance of using plugins with AI applications cannot be under estimated. Plugins that enhance sentiment analysis helps the AI understand the emotions behind a user's response and queries, making it easier to learn what emotions are and how they affect us.

The fact that third-party developers and companies are customizing AI to suit their specific needs means that the AI is learning these industries. For example companies like H&R Block, Expedia, Instacart, Shopfy, and Zapier just to name a few are building plugins and feeding the AI systems large amounts of data in order to maximize its productivity. Just think of how much a connected system can learn about us from this data!

Conclusion

AI will level set the playing field for those that have not had the benefits of others. Many (those that have the benefit of access to resources) will call it cheating, or say that it will reduce the desire to work hard. This is due to fear of change, fear of loss of their power position, and fear that they will have competition from people that may be better at critical thinking and real life applications of knowledge!

It's clear that AI has the potential to free up time and resources in our lives and businesses allowing us to have more time to be with friends and family. It can and will find cures to illnesses that face use today.

We have to come to grip with the reality that a world with smarter and smarter machines that will eventually surpass human intelligence in almost every dimension. Before this happens, we need to think how we want the world to look now and when the change happens.

While AI opens up questions about the ethics of using the content it has created, I ask you, how ethical are the people creating posts on social media, traditional news media and the like?

Listen to the Podcasts Below for more on AI and how it is changing our world:

AI it will change our life: https://the-corporate-entrepreneur.simplecast.com/episodes/aiit-will-change-your-life-and-your-work-environment

Are we giving our decision making to technology: https://the-corporate-entrepreneur.simplecast.com/episodes/the-transition-of-corporate-decision-making-to-technology

P.S. this newsletter was not written using any AI. I will look to create an article using AI and let you know how it comes out.