I don’t claim to be a soothsayer but it’s not hard to tell what the future holds for us to some degree. Certain things are easily projectable, and I think AI is one of those things.
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Artificial Intelligence is something I write about with regularity because I truly see it becoming something that integrates into our society in ways that we haven’t even anticipated. As I write this, Google is using its own heavily biased AI to moderate YouTube. FigureAI is sending its AI-driven robots into BMW factories. AI companion apps are being downloaded and used by millions of people.
(READ: Unreal: Robot Servants in the Home Are Closer Than We Thought)
But this is just the beginning.
After watching OpenAI’s presentation of their new ChatGPT-4o (the “o” stands for “omni” and you’ll see why), I’m pretty sure that my son’s generation, Generation Alpha, will be one that doesn’t know a world without AI integration into almost every aspect of their lives.
My son is only one and even now, AI is currently being designed to be everything he’ll need it to be in order to help him understand the world around him.
For instance, GPT-4o can instantly translate any language into another on the spot.
It has many other features, such as being a deep well of knowledge on any question and relaying these things in such a way that it almost seems human. What really surprised me was when 4o helped a child with their math homework. Watch this short video below of 4o teaching a kid geometry.
Imagine in 10 years, this will become so normal that you won’t be able to find a school that doesn’t utilize AI like this in some way. I can see a teacher still being in the classroom providing oversight, but each child will be working with a personal AI dedicated completely to them. This AI would likely cater to your child’s learning abilities and styles, providing a far better educational experience than the one-size-fits-all model of our current system.
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Or, at least, that’s the ideal way it will happen.
A lot of people are worried about bias, and rightfully so. This is something every parent should be concerned about. I ventured to find out just how biased 4o actually is.
During my show “Brandon Morse Is a Brand Risk,” my chat and I delved into 4o by asking it some questions concerning politics, politicians, and more. You can watch what played out yourself below. The relevant part of the show starts at 49 minutes.
For those of you who can’t watch the entire thing, 4o and I had a voice conversation about various topics.
What we discovered is that 4o does still have a bit of bias due to several issues. Firstly, its programmers have their own political biases and due to them working in tech, they likely have biases to the left. This was more or less seen when we compared responses about Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
However, what was interesting is that the responses were pretty neutral, even with bias being detected. Moreover, 4o admitted that it might be biased but said that part of its training to become non-biased is to interact with users of every kind, including myself.
Interestingly, we asked 4o about the failure of Google Gemini, the AI that failed so spectacularly that it lost Google’s parent company Alphabet $90 billion. What struck me was that 4o described Gemini’s failure as an issue of being too politically left.
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This was accurate. As I reported at the time, Google Gemini’s lead programmer was an anti-white racist with a heavy leftist bias.
(READ: Yes, Google Gemini’s Creator Is, in Fact, Racist Against White People)
Given what we’ve seen so far, and the speed of how it’s developing, I have no doubt that AI will become a very commonplace thing in our society. As I said previously, robots are already making their way onto factory floors for testing. I covered that as well.
Given trends, I anticipate my son’s generation to have AI robots walking around the home that look far more advanced and with far more human behaviors. I imagine by the time my son is 10 years old, he’ll be speaking and utilizing AI as if it were a completely natural part of the human experience.
As I’ve written before. There are going to be a lot of complications both seen and unseen. How many jobs will AI replace? How many AI programs will be utilized for malicious reasons? How will AI affect the marketplace? Will it eventually move into how our elections function? How can we trust it?
The bottom line is that AI is coming whether we like it or not. In fact, I’d say it’s here already. It’s up to us living today to help guide the foundations of AI into being something that won’t destroy society, and that includes a battle on the moral front.
(READ: If Artificial Intelligence Is Inevitable, Then So Is the Showdown About Morality)
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If future generations are going to be safe, AI needs to be monitored by the public as closely as we should be monitoring our public schools. We’ve already proven that a failed AI could cost a company billions and billions of dollars due to our collectively agreeing to embarrass it and not use it.
This means that AI needs to become a topic of political discussion without fail.
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