The latest smartphones bring the power of AI to ever more people for fun, for education and for work. Whether you bought that new phone for its AI features or not, AI is up and running and ready when you are.
The latest Apple, Samsung and Google products all have AI built in “under the hood” and also in apps for image and photo editing, drafting texts and emails and to research topics of interest. Over 55% of users are increasingly asking AI instead of Google for travel itineraries, gift ideas, and troubleshooting tech issues.
But AI isn’t just a new feature, although this is how it may appear to the ordinary smartphone user. AI is a radical technology that represents a fundamental shift in how systems operate.
The evolution of AI capabilities is accelerating right now, and is far from limited to consumer applications. However, we must recognise that the competition between AI providers is such that we must not believe all the hype, and that right now, we may be in an investment bubble destined to burst, before AI development then continues on a more rational path.
The dizzying pace of change is such that regulators can’t keep up and there are pressures from the tech giants to prevent what they see as government interference in innovation and development.
The truth is that massive changes are on their way and there is a huge challenge for regulators to ensure the implementation will be to the benefit of society as a whole rather than for the owners of this new tech to simply use their power to enrich themselves.
I’m hopeful that ultimately the benefits of AI will outweigh the short term disruption, but regulators must not allow the tech giants to have total free rein to influence and control developments in all human endeavours. To do so would be to abdicate responsibility for a free and fair society.
We cannot allow the control of public services to slip entirely into the hands of private owners. If democracy is to mean anything then the people and our representative governments must retain reasonable control.
It simply shouldn’t be up to those who can amass the most money to control all aspects of our politics, health, education, defence, science, medicine, art etc
Gartner Hype Cycle The growth of AI will continue after any initial bubble has burst
The Role Of The Regulators There is a massive challenge
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