Blog #5 - Age of AI

 

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of computer science that focuses on creating better systems to perform tasks that are typically for human intelligence. 

The documentary "In the Age of AI" by FRONTLINE takes a far more comprehensive look at AI, including its features and development.  Along with how it will eventually dominate society. The documentary explores the rapid growth of advancement of artificial intelligence, and how it has a significant impact. It clearly shows how AI is impacting the number of companies and industries in the industry at large.  The documentary raises plenty of privacy and job loss issues related to AI. China's significant developments in AI and how the government's efforts genuinely ruled the world were two significant topics that particularly caught my attention. It really highlights the ethical issues and concerns raised by all the uses and systems of AI and how people use it in their daily life and throughout the world.

There are some positive aspects and more complex things about artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some positive aspects I think could help people with using AI could give them a lot of tasks and ideas and help them in a productive way in various industries is just in a little thing or helping them figure out something.  Additionally, it might promote fast data analysis, offering insight from multiple viewpoints to improve decision-making and problem-solving. 

 But with AI, a lot of people have concerns with privacy, but I think there’s pros and cons that go into that.  One advantage of AI, in my opinion, is that it can significantly improve data and create better system codes that protect personal information more effectively than current technology. An AI-powered system might contain a lot of data. Withholding all of your personal information that might be revealed, misplaced, or accidentally overlooked may cause privacy issues.

    From the documentary the section,  https://youtu.be/5dZ_lvDgevk?t=2728&si=o3UrCWFVmLxsj4Ua  Kai-Fu Lee, a Sinovation Ventures CEO, his statement is saying that AI is not going to take over blue-collar jobs. It’s actually gonna be taking over white collar jobs. We respond back with “while both will happen” “white collar jobs are easier to take because they are pure quantitative analytic processes” he states. Then further go into detail on what types of jobs are more affected like reporters, telemarketers, and customer service jobs saying “all will be replaced by software.” Learning that a system could deprive people of their income truly concerns me. There should be a balance between AI helping and taking over, in my opinion, because when he discuss how AI wouldn't replace blue-collar jobs, it would replace white-collar jobs because, as he says, blue-collar jobs are essentially hands-on or in different fields, and white-collar jobs could be easily replaced by software.

    Lastly, the documentary recognizes the advantages and disadvantages of AI while highlighting and balancing many viewpoints on the matter.  Given that the documentary is five years old, I would really like to see a new one that explores the state of artificial intelligence in five years from now.