Edition #3 - W.H.T.D

Aren't you not tired of hearing it?

Because I am, and at this point you’ve got to join the boat since ,,, well, there is space and you cant beat them.

What is this thing?

Generative AI

Oh, everyone has been talking directly and indirectly (laughs) since the inception of ChatGPT and every big tech companies you know like NVIDIA, ServiceNow and Accenture has publicly made plans within the last 8 months to ensure its quick adoption.

And when it goes this far, you should know juice on this must be thickened with understanding. 

So, what is Generative AI?

Taking this in parts:

• Generative refers to an ability to produce, create, or bring something into existence.
• AI - Short form for Artificial Intelligence which can be likened to taking your child to school in order to be taught how to think like an adult, except that in the tech world, you get to teach a computer how to think like a human instead.

In case you are wondering how a computer is taught, No, its not in a classroom. Let's take Google Search for instance, when someone from Ghana writes an article on food and publishes it on Google, it enters this big box. Now imagine other articles on different topics are published on Google worldwide. These articles end up in the same big box, creating a vast collection of information.

So, when you have this barbecue party coming up and you want to switch up, you go to the Google interface (no need to shove the entire big box in our face - that is backend) and type (or whisper .. lol) the words “Barbecue recipe”. Once you do this, the computer, would go through all the information in the big box, trying to find patterns, connections, and similarities among the different articles to match and return only “Barbecue recipe” articles, pictures, videos or blogs.

Go to Google now, lets try it

But now, instead of having pictures, blogs, videos and articles returned after searching for just “Barbecue recipe”, Generative AI says, "you know what? Let me make your work easier", It is able to read through all of these blogs, articles and videos and give you results in plain simple English that makes it feel human.

That is a potential of at least 30 minutes saved a day!

Phew, now this is out of the way,

Humans Lose legal Battle against AI

Did you know that our intrinstic love for experimentation as human beings is what got high profile companies that made artworks using Generative AI sued big time! Confused? Refill your data juice cup!

Ahem. Remember how the computer has to go through lots of pictures, blogs, articles and videos to provide a humanized response, Generative AI Art also works same but by looking at existing pictures and or artworks it has been trained with and then it creates its own art. But the artists’ whose works were looked at to have AI generate its own wasn’t having it! They felt robbed because no one came to them to get proper permission or even give credit in case they forgot to ask permission in the first place. 

But the Generative AI Art companies defended that the AI models simply cataloged pictures from the internet without copying them, similar to how a person would look at Picasso's art. And Judge William Orrick response?

He expressed skepticism about the claims made by the artists against the AI companies. During the hearing, he said that the artists need to provide more specific and compelling evidence to support their allegations.

Could this get even worse?

AI Classifier has been shut down!!

Well, judge for yourself because OpenAI abruptly shut down its AI Detection tool and did so very quietly.

Why? First off, OpenAI is the reason why we are talking about Generative AI on a large scale as they built ChatGPT, which has only made significant strides in the field of Artificial intelligence at a whole new level. 

But as the African proverb goes “once a blind person is born, his helper is brought into the world as well.” And as you are building Artificially intelligent tools, no lines should be blurred between it and actual human intelligence, which is why OpenAI created an Artificial Intelligence Tool called AI Classifier. 

Obviously, AI Classifier became one of the fastest-growing apps ever after its release but was shut down last week because of “its low rate of accuracy.” In order words, the blind man was born without a helper, the detection tool has the lines of artificial intelligence and human intelligence blurred, a new fear unlocked.

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