At both February’s annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and March’s RootsTech (annual genealogy) Conference in Salt Lake City, Artificial Intelligence (AI) became one of their main themes. Ever since Open AI introduced their ChatGPT website in 2022, it started a new revolution in AI products for many industries. Microsoft’s AI version, now called Co-pilot was featured on 60 Minutes last year followed by Google’s BARD, now renamed Gemini.
Many industrial and commercial companies have added AI into their product lines for good reasons. AI makes your life simpler and can obtain results much faster than the normal web browsers or apps. However, accuracy is still a problem with some AI driven web browsers.
Although different from human intelligence on learning and decision making using creative thinking, it’s getting closer! The Dept. of Defense started the AI concept back in the 1950s, then IBM upset the gaming industry by introducing their Watson computer, which beat the two past smartest Jeopardy TV show winners in 2010. Today, Watson is used to help various industries with great success!
Today’s AI is called Generative AI, which almost simulates human intelligence. It is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. So, it has some creative and decision making capabilities at the creation of using different algorithms, aka software design.
You can imagine how some software developers and CEOs are concerned about destructive behavior AI may cause and takeover some industries without human intervention. As shown in the past Star Wars movies, there will always be a concern about AI soldiers, but for now, the software developers are being careful in developing safe AI products that will benefit the world! Bob Larson is a technologist and Marketing Director for 50 Plus.