"And I for one would like to welcome our Ai overlords"
"Ai, Ai, Ai!"
It sounds like either something off that old Japanese gameshow 'Banzai' that Clive James used to enjoy showing, where contestants were routinely tortured in the name of entertainment, or with a different accent it could be a welcoming Geordie, either way both of those very different responses to the same thing are also how humans are coping or not with the concept that pretty soon we won't be the most intelligent beings anymore, that of Artificial Intelligence.
The truth is we haven't been for some time. Since Garry Kasparov was beaten at Chess, the robotic onslaught (peaceful so far) has been relentless, no area of mind game has been able to withstand the ever increasing knowledge & indeed nuance of Ai. That didn't bother people too much to date as none of us were budding Grand Masters, but the wake up call came with ChatGPT, again Ai had been around for years but you had to be a bit of a geek to create semi dev commands to get the responses, ChatGPT changed this overnight with the ability to conversationally ask it to do things.
And do things how!! We were always told that the robots were going to do the mechanical things, mundane repetitive tasks, that we didn't really want to do. But here it is suddenly doing creative prose, and in many cases with a level of sense of humour that lots of our friends lack. That wasn't meant to be the deal!
Of course there's been ahem hiccups, my favourite was the case of Kevin Roose who in dialogue with a Bing based Ai got repeatedly told he wasn't actually in love with his wife & should leave her. It would have to be Microsoft wouldn't it, Clippy's revenge!
Either that or Kevin is one of the most innovative yet sneaking humans on the planet & used this all as an excuse to have 'the talk' with his missus.
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Either way its clear there's going to be an Ai wave and like any wave you don't want to get caught underneath it. Ideally surfing this mutha like some Baywatch dude would be the preferred option but where to start is so often the question.
In our own industry, not since Purple Bricks dominated agents conversations all those moons ago has a subject been so popular.
So I would be very interested to get your thoughts in a very quick survey here. What you see are the upsides, the risks, what's stopping you from getting involved and of course we'll happily share the results with you after and of course if you're interested give you our humble opinion of where to get started.
Much appreciated, please share where you can, and remember they're watching...always watching.
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1ySimon I always thought there was a Lizard 🦎 from outer space 🛸 living inside your body, now I know for sure. And on the whole Ai cult, if really humans are going to become the underclass, and all the 'work' is being done by 'machines' (I was at Bletchley Park last weekend - that Turin and co have a lot to answer for) - then we get to inherit Utopia, though it is likely to be more like HG Wells - The Time Machine type of dystopian future. The other day someone was saying that Ai was putting creatives out of work, in his sector which was content for advertising. I said here again if software is creating all new content for advertising, then in a couple of years there will just be so much that tiny human brains just will not be able to consume it in a meaningful way as it will be overload, as daily we are bombarded on multi levels the joys of the latest catnip for our cat etc. Then the plug gets pulled out. Also, I am writing two books at present, and I feel it is hard to see how my neural pathways can be replicated by an electronic version, as my 'soul' to use a blunt term, is the product of both data and experience plus my unique human path in life. Maybe we feed the 'machines' beer.