{"id":832,"date":"2024-01-31T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:3002\/?p=832"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:39:56","slug":"ai-where-we-are-and-where-do-we-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techjockey.com\/us\/blog\/ai-where-we-are-and-where-do-we-go-from-here","title":{"rendered":"AI – Where We Are and Where Do We Go From Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Play with me for a moment, run your imagination to 50 years ahead, not much, just 50 years, a time when some of us and, definitely, our kids would be active participants of the society. Let\u2019s say there are two scenarios: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. AI machines and cyborgs are ruling humans and every other species; they treat us like those chickens at our mercy, whom we kill for our safety whenever there is an avian flu scare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Humans have used super advanced machines to optimize everything \u2013 products, services, civil society, regional conflicts, geopolitical strife, climate, our lives, and have a relaxed time on the beaches of Florida or the Maldives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth will be most likely somewhere in between. But how much towards #1 or #2, can\u2019t even be guessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s brought about forever-lasting changes when we moved from largely manual and mechanical. The hum of machines replaced human drudgery. Productivity moved to a different level. But it was slow, and it took decades, even a century, to have a societal impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>AI is Different<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI advancement has been moving at a pace that would give Gordon Moore (God bless his soul) some anxiety. He had predicted that the number of transistors on a chip (aka power) would double every two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the struggle between behemoths like Google and Microsoft or new players like OpenAI<\/a> who took the world by a sudden storm, or many niche developers, this area has the heat & pace which has not been witnessed ever. Instagram had about 1 billion users in 8 years, while ChatGPT was adopted by 300 million users in the first 3 months!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are asserters and naysayers in equal numbers in Artificial Intelligence. Opinions are strong, with neither side wanting to give an inch of their turf. Let\u2019s look at both sides dispassionately, if that is possible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Starting with the not-so-good side:<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An AI machine, to start with, carries the traits of humans working on it. So, biases creep in. In 2016, Microsoft launched \u2018Tay<\/a>\u2019 as a chatbot on social media. Tay was fed with wrong training, started capturing offensive data available online, and spewing it back at the users. It had to be withdrawn 16 hours after its launch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, let’s extrapolate and think, can multiple chatbots, trained to create a new story like hatred towards a particular sect, disturb the social balance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about working to \u2018create\u2019 altogether a new narrative like a new religion?! It may just take a bit longer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI machines do not have emotions. They are, at best, trained to simulate emotions. That makes them mechanical. There\u2019s no biological or hormonal system to build emotions. Of course, that\u2019s good for humans. But for how long, and till when? With huge amounts of data on \u2018experiences and emotions\u2019 being fed, can emotions, close to those of humans, be far away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will that situation not bring unimaginable changes in our world? Imagine getting married to an AI robot because it can do all household tasks, be employed at a factory, and also has the \u2018emotions\u2019 of a companion! Sic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>The Indian Impact<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As per a recent report<\/a>, India is at a low risk of jobs being replaced or displaced by AI, just 40%! While the advanced economies have a dagger of up to 60% on their heads. How will those lost jobs be re-established? Humans are resilient, flexible, and adaptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will we find ways of recovering from this upheaval? We did the same when there was an industrial revolution. But then, this ton of bricks coming towards us is immensely fast and much heavier. Do we have enough time to react and adapt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is a problem of the genie being out of the bottle, the mis-act of unregulated and unconstrained growth. Actually, a growth that surprises AI builders, too. One such discussed instance was (quoted by Sundar Pichai) when the predecessor to Google Bard was prompted minimally to learn Bengali, and it developed efficiency disproportionately to the number of inputs. Was the algorithm doing things not understood by its builders? There are more examples in the industry. Scary, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, there are not only grays, but whites too, in this progress of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Progress of AI<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • AI can take our progress to unimagined heights. AI can propel human thinking to unexplored areas, both as a motivator and as a challenger to our race.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The level of automation brought about by AI can take away the repetitive and mundane tasks from humans, while letting us focus on the more progressive ones. This can also lead to reduced costs for such activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The services delivered by automatons can be 24\/7 without the risks of reduced efficiency and productivity associated with humans working for prolonged hours. This also means many services can be available 24 X 7 X 365.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • AI is, of course, less prone to errors that creep in due to humans\u2019 loss of concentration, fatigue, biases, and emotions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tasks that involve large amounts of data, probably lying in repositories, can be delivered by AI much faster and more accurately. In fact, many such decisions may not be possible for humans at all. Imagine the impact this has on healthcare research, fraud detection, cybersecurity, improved day-to-day safety, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • To my mind, the biggest benefit will be to challenge humans to think of the next level of progress, even if it starts of our fears of being \u2018taken over\u2019 by machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    <\/span>The Ending Note<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The world leaders and large organizations are just talking, with no regulations still in place \u2013 these regulations may never come or never be effective in light of the competitive commercial benefits to companies or States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Let\u2019s not be under any false impression that AI will not become smarter than humans, as it is a matter of time in many areas. We may remain much better sentients, with our emotions being our collective strength, but this is a space to be watched with pride and caution both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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