A.I. Revolution - PBS Nova documentary

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Premiered Mar 27, 2024

Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve the world’s most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable force that ultimately destroys us? ChatGPT and other new A.I. tools can now answer complex questions, write essays, and generate realistic-looking images in a matter of seconds. They can even pass a lawyer’s bar exam. Should we celebrate? Or worry? Or both? Correspondent Miles O’Brien investigates how researchers are trying to transform the world using A.I., hunting for big solutions in fields from medicine to climate change.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:38 Modern Origins of Artificial Intelligence
09:05 How Does Artificial Intelligence Work?
16:21 Improving Prosthetics with AI
20:20 Predicting Cancer Diagnosis with AI
25:13 Uses of AI in Medicine
28:48 Other Positive Uses of Artificial Intelligence
37:20 The Danger of AI Fakes
49:23 Conclusion

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A transcript is here. The part starting at 37:20 addresses the problem of fabricated images and videos that AI is capable of creating, for instance one depicting Obama.

[Crowman2009]

1. A.I. is only going to work if...

1) The profit motive is taken out.
2) It doesn't consume massive amounts of energy.
3) It is used to replace corporate executives instead of workers.

[Warpy]

2. AI and robotics can do the dull, repetetive things and work that wrecks our bodies

Well, much of the work that wrecks our bodies. However, if these tech bros think they're going to make the rest of us utterly irrelevant in their brave new world of their Ubermenschen kiddies, they're sadly mistaken.

Executives will dsappear as their departments are depopulated and then merged with other departments, so that is a given.

What we need to see is that universal basic income for displaced workers first.

What I do know is that world domination schemes based on any new technology have always failed.

[ancianita]

3. I've read books on AI for years, and after watching this, I must thank you so much for this update

on all the good AI can do, which advances AI's alignment with humans. Here, Deep Mind's Alfa Fold is one of the best examples.