YohWhatAYear: Scrolla.Africa is counting down the heroes and horrors of 2023. At quantity seven on each of our lists is Synthetic Intelligence (AI), which exploded into our lives this yr.
Each for the great and the dangerous, 2023 was the yr that the AI revolution actually hit residence.
That is why we’re doing one thing a bit totally different right now, and together with AI as each the hero and the horror.
It may go actually mistaken – big will increase in AI computing energy may wipe out rising numbers of jobs, gasoline inequality, and let ever cleverer bots destroy elections and take over social media.
There’s additionally a brand new breed of AI, known as Synthetic Basic Intelligence (AGI), the place machines can really suppose like people. AGI may go actually mistaken if the machines resolve they don’t have any want for humanity anymore.
However hey, there is a good story too.
The brand new AI programmes and AGI may assist us remedy issues, and likewise, for instance, carry entry to glorious schooling to the remotest rural communities.
AI has already helped journalists trawl by huge quantities of information, which they might by no means have learn by on their very own, to uncover many main tales.
It’s creating advances in drugs, serving to medical doctors to determine ailments in sufferers extra precisely which makes it simpler to deal with them.
AI language instruments are serving to us recover from the language barrier, making it simpler to speak with folks across the globe.
From farming to transportation to safety, there are AI fashions making processes extra environment friendly and serving to society to perform higher.
We requested Chat GPT, one of many AI programmes which took the world by storm in 2023, what AI’s finest influence was in 2023.
It replied: “In 2023, AI’s finest influence lies in advancing healthcare, combating local weather change, personalising schooling, boosting financial productiveness, enhancing assistive applied sciences, and enhancing public security, thereby fixing complicated issues and considerably enhancing international high quality of life.”
