Three AI important questions that crossed my mind.
Who should be making decisions? Then I dug into a use case of full self-driving cars.
Can we trust AI with our lives? Then I thought of some healthcare use cases.
How will AI enhance human abilities? Then I thought of the educational system and children of tomorrow.
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Who should be making decisions?
You, or a machine? When it comes to voting, we trust machines. When it comes to medicine, we trust humans. We’ll always be conflicted in this sense until the norm has been established.
Full self-driving is showing this ethical dilemma because machines would be able to make driving decisions, which is dangerous (or not?)
Statistically, it’s the safest option.
Emotionally, it’s scary.
Waymo, a transportation company in the US, already started testing FSD and is growing year over year. The norm is changing in this sense.
Can we trust AI with our lives?
You enter an operation room and find a robot operating on you. You freak out and run out. You trust human doctors.
I had a conversation with a medical professional a few months ago. I was telling them that I had the LASIK eye operation around 12 years ago. Then I explained that a human doctor used the tools to conduct the operation with his own hands.
That medical professional I was talking to was shocked — “We use machines for that, this is scary.”
It’s how the norm is decided to be. It’s sort of like the herd effect — if everyone is running in a specific direction, you’re most likely going to run as well.
How will AI enhance human abilities?
Your children could be learning from a biased teacher or an unbiased machine. The future will have these dilemmas. Some will prefer people. Others will prefer machines.
It will depend on culture as well as the core concept of education and what you want from those human beings in the long run.
A good use case of how critical AI is when it comes to education is Duolingo’s AI features. Some allow you to learn a language by speaking to an AI machine. If you learned languages, you know that it’s kind of a new adventure to speak this language out loud versus writing it. This breaks that barrier.
It’ll soon be time to learn how to cope with artificial intelligence. Fear won’t help. It’s going to be scary because it’s something we don’t know. But being afraid won’t move you forward. Learning how to interact with those algorithms will be the way to go.
PS. I’m prepping a couple of AI tools for my paid subscribers to beta test. One in the image processing industry, and the other in prompt engineering.
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