Artificial Intelligence (AI) Update: A Deep Dive into the Different Types... and the Promises and Perils of Generative AI
Here's a Summary Overview of the Various AI Forms Along with an Exploration of the Rewards and Likely Risks of Generative AI in Today’s Tech-Driven World.
“AI Jail” - Original artwork by Sam Kephart using prompts with Craiyon.com
The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is diverse and continually evolving, with advancements and new applications emerging regularly. AI can be classified into seven (7) types based on their capabilities and functionality.
Understanding these can help us appreciate the vast potential of AI and prepare for what we can expect from this technology. With such a massive landscape, it’s challenging to understand the various forms of AI, especially the controversial and complex field of ‘Generative AI.’
This summary aims to simplify the overall AI landscape for the uninitiated… and provide a balanced view of the benefits and potential dangers of Generative AI. I hope you find it useful.
Capability-Based Types of AI:
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI): ANI, also known as weak AI, is designed to perform very specific tasks. They often utilize machine learning and neural network algorithms to complete these tasks. Examples of ANI include image recognition software, self-driving cars, and AI virtual assistants like Siri.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): AGI, or strong AI, can learn, think, and perform a wide range of actions similarly to humans. Although AGI is still a work in progress, the aim is to create machines capable of acting as equally intelligent assistants to humans in everyday life.
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): ASI, or super AI, is a theoretical stage where AI surpasses human knowledge and capabilities. It would act as the backbone technology of self-aware AI and other individualistic robots. It's this concept that fuels popular media tropes of “AI takeovers.”
Functionality-Based Types of AI:
Reactive Machines: These are the most fundamental type of AI. Reactive machines respond to immediate requests and tasks, but they aren’t capable of storing memory or learning from past experiences. They are useful for performing basic autonomous functions, such as filtering spam from your email inbox or recommending movies based on your most recent Netflix searches.
Limited Memory: Limited memory AI can build its own limited knowledge base and use that knowledge to improve over time. This model represents the majority of AI applications today.
Theory of Mind: This concept, still largely theoretical, refers to AI that can perceive and respond to emotions, in addition to performing the tasks of limited memory machines. This kind of AI could revolutionize technologies like self-driving cars by allowing them to make decisions based on nuanced, emotional cues that current AI technologies can't pick up on.
Self-Aware AI: This is the pinnacle of AI evolution, where machines develop a sense of self. At this stage, AI machines would be capable of understanding and recognizing their own existence and emotions, as well as those of others. It is this level of AI that both excites and worries researchers due to its potential to be beyond our control.
Now, let's delve deeper into a specialized form of AI called 'Generative AI.'
Generative AI is an AI technology that leverages machine learning techniques to generate human-like content, from writing articles to creating artwork.
Generative AI has a wide range of useful applications:
Content Creation: Generative AI can autonomously produce high-quality content, such as articles, emails, and social media posts.
Art & Design: AI can generate unique and compelling designs and artworks.
Medicine: Generative algorithms can help design new drugs or predict patient's health outcomes.
Data Augmentation: AI can generate synthetic data to augment real-life datasets, improving the performance of machine learning models.
Personalized Experiences: Generative AI can customize products, services, and experiences based on individual tastes and preferences.
Despite these benefits, the power of Generative AI also carries considerable risks:
Deepfakes: AI can create hyper-realistic fake video and audio recordings, potentially spreading, rumors, misinformation, or causing reputational damage.
Unauthorized Content: AI could generate content that infringes on copyrights or creates plagiarism issues.
Job Displacement: AI's ability to autonomously create content could lead to job losses in creative industries.
AI Bias: AI systems might generate content that reflects and amplifies existing societal biases.
Security Risks: AI can be used to automate the creation of phishing emails or other malicious content.
The potential risks of Generative AI raise the important question of regulation.
Regulating AI can help mitigate these risks, ensuring that AI is used responsibly and ethically. However, regulation also presents challenges. AI is a global phenomenon… and coordinating regulations across different countries is difficult. Also, over-regulation will likely stifle innovation and impede the development of beneficial AI technologies.
Generative AI holds significant promise; it also carries potential dangers that need to be carefully managed. An open, informed dialogue about the benefits and risks of AI, and how best to regulate it, is crucial as we move further into the AI era.
It's crucial those in the AI industry and legislators work collaboratively to strike a balance between fostering innovation and guarding against misuse. This includes keeping the public informed about AI's capabilities and its implications, both positive and negative.
BE VERY CLEAR - AI is NOT an infallible solution; it’s a tool that needs to be used with caution and responsibility.
As AI continues to evolve, and its use becomes more prevalent in our daily lives, the need for vigilance in its application and regulation will only grow more critical.
Stay informed and engaged. Let’s make sure AI serves as a force for good, fueling progress and innovation while respecting our values, privacy (what’s left of it), and societal norms.
Editor’s Note: As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’ve been playing with (experimenting with) Generative AI for a few months now, particularly in assisting me to create graphics and doing some topical research.
My conclusion so far?
Generative AI can be quite useful, but it’s kind of like working with an online cantankerous pack mule - you’d better understand its ‘personality’, how to speak to it (proper prompt engineering), have some figurative “sticks and carrots”, and be street-smart enough to know when it’s feeding you bullshit. And you’d better be a damn good editor.
Based on my personal experience thus far, Generative AI is ABSOLUTELY biased towards maintaining and protecting “the Official Narrative.”
It’s been pretty predictable AND utterly useless for me when attempting to gain deeper insights in the Excess Deaths and Adverse Effects resulting from the COVID-19 “vaccines” and various mandates. It slyly responds to inquiries and prompts by always coming back to and reinforcing the “safe and effective” narrative… and even pushing the wisdom of staying compliant and “boosted.”
What a crock of shit!!
So, it would be very easy for the uninformed and naive to be led down a proven VERY wrong path. That’s a BIG ISSUE here… and I’m not sure ANY amount of regulation or restrictive guard-rails will prevent intellectual lemmings from following others “off-the-cliff.”
As was said long ago in Ancient Rome, “Caveat Emptor.” Buyer Beware!
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Editor’s Note: I have NO WAY of vetting the following video as to whether it’s real or fake. However, the warning given has the “ring of truth” to me, irrespective of its source; PAY ATTENTION:
I'm a big AI skeptic. One reason is these AI system creators, seemingly MIT party boys, don't have a clue about consciousness , like most everyone. A second is these guys are lying sacks of excrement. There are the lawyers who used AI for help writing briefs. The program made up cases that never happened, and the lawyers involved were too lazy to check, to their detriment. Then there's the prominent online academic who asked for his own bio. Nearly every detail was false, and the software made up a scandal that never happened, one of a sexual nature. It's impossible to create a new mind when the creators are lying morons.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/for-futurists-the-future-always-seems