7/4/2023 0 Comments Men of war 2 stupid ai![]() Many alarmists have an incentive to find or exaggerate a reason for alarm because doing so attracts funding for their advocacy. While many accept this premise, alarmists only imagine catastrophic risks or prefer the state of technology as it is. The merits of encouraging or curbing any new technology depend on the available use cases and potential harm. As the panic over generative AI enters its most volatile stage, policymakers should take a deep breath, recognize the predictable cycle we are in, and put any regulation efforts directly aimed at generative AI temporarily on hold. But unlike today, policymakers were unlikely to do much to regulate and restrict these technologies. Indeed, other previous “generative” technologies in the creative sector such as the printing press, the phonograph, and the Cinématographe followed this same course. ![]() The fears around new technologies follow a predictable trajectory called “the Tech Panic Cycle.” 2 Fears increase, peak, then decline over time as the public becomes familiar with the technology and its benefits. Over time, this and other tech panics fizzled out as the public embraced the new technology, markets adapted, and initial concerns turned out to be clearly overblown or never arrived. ![]() For example, prior innovations in the music sector led to fears that record albums would make live shows redundant or that radio would destroy the record industry or that sampling and other means of digital editing would undermine musical artistry. Yet, technology and human creativity have long been intertwined, and fears about the negative impact of new innovations have been overstated in the past. This novelty has impressed technology enthusiasts but alarmed many others-especially those who believe AI is encroaching on creativity, which many people believe to be an essential difference that separates humans from machines. Generative AI-a novel tool that can produce complex text, images, and videos from simple inputs-promises to democratize the creative sector and enable entirely new forms of creativity. 1įears about AI have reached new levels because of the emergence of generative AI. AI doomsayers predict job destruction, declining human intelligence, loss of privacy, algorithmic manipulation, and, sometimes, the end of humanity. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI)-a branch of computer science that studies computer systems that perform operations previously requiring human intelligence-have heightened imaginations about what the future holds. Significant technological changes inevitably disrupt the economy and society, and the potential for major change induces both inflated fears and expectations. However, exaggerated and misleading concerns about the tool’s potential to cause harm have crowded out reasonable discussion about the technology, generating a familiar, yet unfortunate, “tech panic.” Until the hysteria dissipates, policymakers should hit pause on any new legislation or regulations directly targeting generative AI. Summary: Generative artificial intelligence (AI)-AI systems that produce novel text, images, and music from simple user prompts-has important applications in many fields, including entertainment, education, health care, and retail.
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