This Artificial Intelligence (AI) with us for decadesHowever I’ve never been so present in our lives. First there were supercomputers that could play chess, then there were virtual assistants, and this was 2022 when productive systems emerged that could generate texts or images that never existed according to user wishes in seconds. The most powerful to date, these innovations have made AI products popular with the general public, but also fears awoke among those who see them as a threat.
Beyond the dystopian fantasies, AI is the discipline that equips machines with the ability to respond to complex problems.. Computers do not have self-awareness, but they can calculate, memorize and learn based on data that humans have trained them, giving orders to improve themselves. In practice, AI allows Siri (Apple) or Alexa (Amazon) to understand and process your wishes, but it has also managed to automate industrial processes with robots, organize complex financial transactions, or diagnose diseases before the eyes of doctors.
In recent months, increasingly advanced systems, make a revolution art. The advent of programs like DALL-E (named after the Catalan painter Dalí), Stable Diffusion or Midjourney has captivated millions of users around the world, any image we can draw in real time (or even in 3D). define them by mimicking pictorial styles and opening the door to a new kind of digital art. Chat-GPT text generator, for its own sake, can chat with the user, write a novel, write poetry or program computer code. “It’s mimicking human reasoning more and more, it’s incredible,” David Casacuberta, professor of logic and philosophy of science at the UAB, told El Periódico of the Prensa Ibérica group.
Productive AIs doing their job as tech market pulls down by macroeconomic turmoil an increasingly attractive market is emerging. Venture capital investments in such creative technologies have increased by 425% since 2020 and have already reached $2,100 million, according to data from PitchBook. OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk, funded by Microsoft and the organization behind some of the most successful programs, is worth 20 billion and plans to increase its business in the coming months.
Creative AI risks
These AIs are a phenomenon that everyone wants to ‘play’ with. But they are still not without risk. Chat-GPT can spread lies in a true and believable manner, deceiving users unknowingly. “She follows your conversations very well and seems logical, but when something is invented and you don’t know it, you may believe it to be true,” says Helena Matute, professor of experimental psychology specializing in AI. The danger that “verifying the truth will become increasingly difficult”. The same issue forced Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to withdraw the Galactica language model three days after it made it public. “If you’re not always meticulous, you’re never reliable,” warns tech analyst Antonio Ortiz. Google has yet to release its own version for fear that it will affect its reputation.
On the other hand, the proliferation of renderers has put graphic artists on the path of war as they denounce that these AIs are trained to work without their consent to create new results without proprietary rights. In other words, they steal the job. In addition, these models learn from the data they extract from the internet. magnifying racial, gender, age, or class prejudices available on the network. That’s why users of the popular Lensa app, which uses artificial intelligence to turn our ‘selfies’ into more attractive pictures, have disclosed that the program tends to undress and hypersexualize women, while men are stylized as astronauts, explorers or inventors.
Opportunities and social impact
The emergence of creative artificial intelligence is the latest result of a phenomenon that has been normalizing in many economic sectors for years. And this 50% of companies in the world are already trying to implement these systems Smart, 30% more than in 2017, according to McKinsey consulting.
From financial services to telecommunications, healthcare, logistics or tourism, most industries rely on AI to process customer requests, automate repetitive tasks, analyze millions of data to extract patterns, and ultimately grow their businesses more productively and efficiently. McKinsey predicts AI will have $13 trillion impact on global economic activity by 2030according to him, the greatest progress since the invention of the steam engine in the 18th century.
As with the locomotive, the advent of revolutionary technologies brings risks as well as opportunities. It is estimated that the use of artificial intelligence will affect 12% to 47% of jobs. Robots will replace the more mechanical ones, but at the same time new, more technical job profiles will emerge for programming and controlling machines. Yet digitalization is already causing social externalities such as the digital proletariat that spawned so-called platform capitalism with companies like Uber or Glovo. “There are many rights that we guarantee in the analogue world, but that are diluted in the online world and need to be defended.“, pointed to this newspaper economics Lucía Velasco.
This dichotomy can be extended to all areas where artificial intelligence lands. More and more public administrations are turning to these systems to try to predict from immigration flows to Europe to the risk of inmates recidivism, as in prisons in Catalonia. These methods try to make the management of all kinds of business more efficient, but they also raise suspicion. Therefore, both civic groups and the Government, Watch as AI deployment unlocks all opportunities while minimizing social impact.