The Artificial Intelligence (AI) It has been gaining strength in recent years as a very important tool in the advancement of industries at different levels. This has helped the growth of many companies and now the public has many more tools to learn more about what it is like to work with this new technology.
In everyday life, different modes of artificial intelligence are becoming more and more popular, such as the much-known Chat GPT, which is trained to answer questions and perform language-related tasks, from translation to text generation.
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The capacity of Chat GPT is so great that various myths and beliefs surrounding AI are spreading once again in social networks and the digital space. Will he ever be able to dominate us or surpass us? These are the questions that have even become popular with the production of futuristic cinema that has to do with AI.
Juan David Gutiérrez is a professor at the Universidad del Rosario and an expert in the governance of artificial intelligence and was consulted by Publimetro Colombia to clarify 5 myths that have become very popular about AI.
1. Artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of perfectly developing human behavior and thinking
False, artificial intelligence is not capable of thinking, reasoning or performing this type of cognitive function in the human sense.
2. AI will kill many jobs
In the short term, technologies tend to displace jobs, but in the medium and long term they create new jobs. If seen from the latter, what is going to be new types of work, so that human beings would not run out of things to do.
3. AI could take over the world if it is not limited
There are many people who take this issue very seriously. There was recently a survey among people who work in Machine Learning (automated machine learning) and they considered that the risk is 10% of that happening, it is quite high, because it is not marginal. As for me, I don’t think it will happen.
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4. AI could replace a teacher at all
Artificial intelligence is not capable of replacing a teacher at all. Among other things, they do not have the ability to reason or think, and they are obviously not capable of having a world view, so they cannot be a moral agent, they cannot distinguish between good and evil, the true and the false, the fiction and reality, so at this time it could not.
But it is true that there are tasks that can be automated and that could be replaced in some process as a complement, as is the case today with other tools.
5. AI can become sexist, racist and misogynistic if it is trained with biases
Yes, algorithmic systems can reproduce hate speech, sexist, racist and they do it for many reasons. But the main reason is because of the data with which they are trained. In 2016, Microsoft developed a chatbot called Tay, which was trained on information found on Twitter. Had to turn it off within 24 hours because it started responding to completely unacceptable things.
But one should not anthropomorphize artificial systems because they don’t have feelings, they don’t have consciousness, they’re not sentient beings. One must be very careful about thinking that one is interacting with a person or sentient mind.