Elon, Google and AI

"Stay tuned on this one folks. This will be a hot topic for years to come. In the meantime, be nice to your Alexa or Siri. Why? Some day we might be answering to them, instead of them answering to us!"   

I know I have recently addressed this AI issue. But holy smokes, is this ever front and center in the news as of late! Tucker Carlson has a special with Elon Musk to discuss status and future of AI, and then Sundar Pichai (the head of Google), was on 60 Minutes to discuss the same subject. It is like, all of a sudden, AI is the topic de jour to discuss with the AI Captains of Industry.

Not only that, but all of a sudden, my You Tube feed, and tech sites I follow, are full of recent articles concerning AI. All kind of new lingo is being thrown about. ChatGPT, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and the soon to be announced, GPT-5. And examples of each are free to watch on different sites. It is unique and sometimes downright scary. Especially GPT-4, where all you need to do is say something (such as pink taxies on a downtown street), and poof!. All of a sudden the computer generates an image of pink taxies on a busy downtown street.

But GPT-5 will take this even further. It not only constructs an image based on some words you put in text, it will make those words into a video! I saw an example of this also, and it was simply amazing! All I could think about was if things are this advanced with GPT-5, what will GPT-6 hold? It boggles my mind just to think about it.

But the mic drop moment came from Sundar Pichai of Google, when asked an exact question on how this entire AI thing works. With a moment of true honesty, he relied, "We don't really understand how it works." All I could think about when I heard that, is Frankenstein's Monster. Once the monster was created, and was unleashed on the world, Dr. Frankenstein had no idea on how to control it. Why not? He did not really understand what he had just created. The rest of that story is history.

I have said this in my last article I wrote on this subject, and heard it again last night from an AI analyst - the horse is out of the barn on AI. Too much development is going on, my too many companies, in too many countries. The development of AI is not going to stop - it will continue. Too many future inventions and devices will be dependent on it. One expert said we need to put government "curbs" on the development, as to slow it down a bit. Good luck with that one! How can you "curb" something you don't really understand? 

Are we creating a Skynet, or a HAL from 2001, A Space Odyssey? Or will this be a tool for mankind which will allow us to create and invent the stuff that fantastic and fantasy are made of? Items with will allow us to take that next big, big leap in technology. Heck, maybe it will only just make gaming more fun. We simply don't know at this point in time. But the caution flags are out there. Put down by more than one technology expert.

Stay tuned on this one folks. This will be a hot topic for years to come. In the meantime, be nice to your Alexa or Siri. Why? Some day we might be answering to them, instead of them answering to us!