In 2024, artificial intelligence will shape the world in new ways.
Báo Dân trí•04/01/2024
(Dan Tri) - 2023 is a turning point for artificial intelligence (AI), its role has partly changed the way we work in society. This year, AI will have new world shapes.
Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1960s, but it wasn’t until 2022 that the technology became widely known. In 2023, AI really exploded, rising from the shadows to the center of our minds.
The world needs to find ways to live safely with AI (Illustration: FX Media).
The impact of this technology is so great that it has forced the US President Joe Biden's administration to issue an executive order on AI or the European Union to pass laws to regulate AI, in an attempt to restrain a galloping horse.
In 2023, scientists are talking a lot about whether AI will save or destroy the world, making us feel that one day artificial intelligence will overwhelm the current reality. One of the big debates about AI in 2023 revolves around the role of ChatGPT and related chatbots in the field of education. At that time, most of the stories focused on how students could use this tool to cheat on exams, forcing educators to ban the use of AI. A year later, it was realized that not teaching students about AI could put them at a disadvantage, and many schools have reversed this ban. Many countries have begun to consider reforming their education systems to put AI at the center of everything.
In 2024, artificial intelligence promises to make a breakthrough in the education industry (Illustration: Medium).
But if students don’t learn how AI works, it can be very dangerous. This is not just true in education. The more people understand how AI works, the more empowered they are to use it for good. So 2024 will be the year AI has a huge impact on schools. Many universities around the world are rushing to hire AI engineers to integrate this technology into their teaching. There will certainly be unintended consequences, but scientists hope that technology companies will listen and modify their AI models, gradually shaping it into a good tool in the future.
More harm than good?
The AI race is on, the widespread release of ChatGPT in 2022 has started an all-out competition for profit, glory and global domination from this technology. Many people expect more powerful AI, along with a series of AI-integrated applications that will be launched this year. One of them is AI that can reason and think logically like humans. Armies of scientists are researching and developing this. Innovative AI-integrated applications will create new benefits. We may soon start hearing about chatbots and AI assistants talking to each other, conducting the entire conversation on your behalf, but behind your back. Along with this great benefit, it is equally harmful to us, if technology companies do not have measures to protect users.
AI-powered Deepfake technology is getting harder to spot.
Deepfakes technology is images or videos created by AI that are very difficult to detect and will be used by cybercriminals to harm everyone from fraud, blackmail, privacy invasion, to inserting our faces into sensitive videos to defame our honor. In fact, in 2023, many famous politicians , singers or actors in the world, including Vietnam, will be victims of Deepfakes technology. If countries do not have measures to control AI, it is completely capable of creating new disasters that were just fiction 5 years ago. SpaceX boss Elon Musk is the one who has issued the biggest warning about AI, hoping that the government will restrain this technology so that we can use it safely. Therefore, this year, countries around the world may introduce stronger regulations related to artificial intelligence.
New Generation of AI in 2024
Since the launch of ChatGPT, general AI models have continued to develop at a rapid pace. If ChatGPT in 2023 only used text as input and text as output, in 2024, scientists expect multimodal AI models, using data from many different media sources including video , audio and images on all platforms. With the new generation of multimodal large language models (LLM), AI can use text input to generate not only images or text but also audio and video content. Technology companies are racing to develop LLM so that it can be deployed on many different types of hardware and applications, including integration on smartphones. This could bring autonomous AI to a new world. This capability would bring the enormous transformative power of AI to applications in everything from business to medicine. The main concern among scientists is that such advanced capabilities will pose new challenges in distinguishing between human- and AI-generated content, as well as new harms.
AI in 2024 will have many new generations that can chat for you (Illustration: LinkedIn).
The flood of synthetic AI-generated content could open the door for cybercriminals and extremist groups to enter the world. They could use AI to create synthetic identities or orchestrate disinformation on a global scale, which would be extremely harmful to global security. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned about fraud, deception, privacy violations, and unethical practices from AI-generated content. While digital platforms like YouTube have established policies to disclose AI-generated content, agencies like the FTC and lawmakers are exploring new ways to protect citizens’ privacy. As AI becomes more and more embedded in human life, it is clear that it is time for us to no longer consider AI as algorithms as part of technology, but to consider the context in which they operate with humans and society, so that AI can coexist with us safely and beneficially.
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