CHAPTER 18THE FUTURE OF AI
GenAI burst onto the scene at the end of 2022 with ChatGPT 3.5, and ever since everyone has been trying to predict what’s next for AI. You can stay up-to-date with the latest thinking around this chapter and the rest of the book at curious.click/latest.
Thankfully, some of the topics and predictions here will still be in development by the time this book is in your hands. But with the pace of change from companies such as OpenAI – examples being the release of their text-to-video tool, Sora, in February 2024, and then ChatGPT 4o in May 2024 – who knows where AI will be as you are reading this in late 2024 and beyond.
Undoubtedly, the future of AI will be in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
What is AGI?
In Chapter 3, I explained that modern AIs are “narrow” – they are designed to perform specific tasks, such as recognising speech, playing chess, or driving a car, with human-like efficiency or better. These narrow AIs are optimised and focused to excel at their one specific task. They tend to struggle when they encounter tasks or situations that they have not been designed to do or trained on.
Designing and building these AI tools requires human input in some form or another. A human programmer or data scientist is required to help provide and train it for that specific task.
When I described this process in Chapter 3, I talked about the concept of “deep learning” – the subset of machine learning which can help an AI to train itself ...
Get Digitally Curious now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
