While artificial intelligence (AI) can replace vehicle drivers and can win at chess, it can also free people from the responsibility of completing certain tasks, leaving them with the ones they do best. Chatgrape CEO Felix Hausler shared how AI is becoming an integral part of our daily lives and how we can overcome the challenges associated with it.
AI can do as much good as it can harm: it beats humans in technical games with indefatigable computing power, and helps humans do research, or it can even drive a person home when they're too drunk to drive, Hausler noted during his TED talk. But, he said, in the coming decades, many people will lose their jobs due to automation, and today AI is a threat to 47 percent of jobs.
This will primarily affect drivers, production workers and administrative workers. At the same time, while it poses a threat of job losses, the possibility of merging with technology that allows us to coexist with AI will help us become “superhumans,” Howsler said.
Humanity needs machines more than is commonly believed, he says, and they will help make our work more interesting. “If we recognize that we need each other in this life, then we can benefit from it,” said Howsler.
Machines have limitations, and this is especially true of their incompetence in social communication. To get the most out of AI, humans must understand the limitations of computing and only let machines do what they can do well, leaving people to do the tasks they do best, such as social engagement, creativity, and logical thinking. … At the same time, people need machines to counteract the "destructive dullness" from tedious and monotonous work, since the human brain cannot stand monotony and repetition, he said.
Howsler proposed using AI as the “third” hemisphere of the brain, in addition to the left and right, which are responsible for logic and creativity, respectively. This third hemisphere deals with repetition, precision, and speed. By being in charge of tedious and repetitive actions, AI will allow people to focus on what they do best. The ability of machines to eliminate confusion in communication, mediate between people who think differently, and translate a person's thoughts or patterns into tasks can help people find common ground with them, Housler said.
According to him, today there are several ways to communicate with AI. One of them is natural language processing, where a machine listens to a person, reads what is written to it, and enhances intellectual ability to facilitate some tasks. Another way is behavioral, in which the machine connects to human devices and learns everything important about their owner in order to suggest corrections based on his behavior patterns. The third way is augmented reality, in which a machine enlarges a person's field of view and provides information to him while he does something else. And the fourth way is to create a computer-brain interface.
“When we have a perfect brain-computer interface, we will have access to this third hemisphere and can directly delegate basic tasks to the machine,” said Howsler.
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