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The Humans Behind the Digital Curtain
There’s been a fair bit of kerfuffle over the past year or so that Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various forms, is coming for all our jobs. That most of us will live off of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or we’ll all move out into the woods and go off grid growing veggies and things. Perhaps some day. But that day may be a little ways off.
Turns out, there’s more humans behind the AI curtain than we’ve been lead to believe. So what does this mean for the future of AI and it’s role in our sociocultural systems? Let’s explore a little.
There are already some excellent uses of AI tools in industry, healthcare and other aspects of our society. Many of these will improve in the coming years. One AI tool that’s proving a bit of a sticky wicket however, is Generative AI; such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Midjourney. Multi-Modal. While GAI can be of value in various ways, it’s not quite meeting the hype.
That’s actually par for the course with many revolutionary technologies. Our cultures react in different ways and often, the technologies that are hyped take a little longer than we think to become truly effective for human use. This is known as Amara’s law.
In recent months, we have come to see that not all is as it seems with AI tools across several well promoted scenarios. Amazon’s Just Walk Out stores…
