The UN sees great rewards, and risks, with AI for humanity and the world in their new report.
"The potential benefits of AI are enormous," the report concluded. "The rapid, unchecked deployment of the technology at scale also presents considerable risks, including harms to the mental health of users, potential use as a destructive tool, impacts on social, economic and environmental systems, and challenges associated with controlling the technology."
AI adoption has accelerated broadly, but unevenly, across countries and sectors. Globally, over a billion people now use conversational AI weekly, but adoption in developing countries lags.
Although more than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, current AI models are trained for only a small fraction and machine translation of some languages is riddled with errors that can affect health diagnoses and treatment decisions.
https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en
https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/preliminary-report
https://www.un.org/en/ai-advisory-body (older report on AI and governance)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 03, @12:10PM
>Globally, over a billion people now use conversational AI weekly
Have database query operators therefore been using AI all this time?
Have programmers been having "conversations" with their compilers? And assemblers? And blinking lights on their binary program entry interfaces?
I'm reminded of the late 1990s when browsers started delivering pictures and video snippets. A colleague said "finally, it's getting to something I can relate to, I can't really get into all that text on the screen." Ironic, since her job was test engineer, reviewing code and developing and executing and documenting software quality tests - but that was work for her, the videos were more "relaxing."
Have people who read books (who, I believe still are not and never have been a majority of the global population) at least weekly for pleasure / relaxation - have they been "interacting with AI" - after all, the printing press automated retelling of stories, that's half of a conversation already.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Friday July 03, @01:55PM
'AI' gives confident-sounding unreliable texts that looks like an answer to questions posed by users.
They are 'simply' the statistically most likely* continuation of the text of the prompt, with the statistics determined by the corpus that the 'AI' model was trained on. If the most likely response (as determined by the corpus statistics) is the wrong one, that is what you'll get.
The unreliability means that this is not something to base an economy on. It is a large, expensive 'parlour trick'.
At some point, people are going to wake up from this mass delusion.
*Randomisation is added to ensure you do not get exactly the same response to the same prompt - that would be a giveaway.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday July 03, @02:53PM
Namely UN is one of the impotent products of humanity that could be completely replaced by LLMs at no loss of functionality.
Besides, any tribe is responsible for maintaining their tribal language on their own, computerized or not.
The kinder you are, the easier it is for wicked people to morally coerce you.
(Score: 0, Spam) by Murat on Friday July 03, @10:48PM