Artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years, and it’s hard to deny that it has significantly impacted our world. In fact, you could argue that AI has taken over the world, and we haven’t even noticed.
One of the key players in the world of AI is OpenAI. One of their most notable projects is GPT-3, a language-processing AI that can generate human-like text. This technology has been used to write articles, create content for social media, and even generate code. Another is DALL-E – an AI that generates images from text.
But it’s not just AI tools like GPT-3 that are having an impact. AI algorithms drive activity on social media platforms like YouTube, Google, and Facebook. These algorithms help personalize our experience on these platforms by showing us content relevant to our interests and activity.
For example, an AI algorithm recommends videos based on your watch history and your liked videos when you use YouTube. On Google, AI algorithms help rank search results and show ads relevant to your search queries. And on Facebook, AI algorithms help curate your news feed and show ads targeted to your interests.
How we interact with the internet now subjects us to the algorithm from the first query in Google. The moment we stop for a quick gander at an ad will drive our recommendations and will soon impact our purchasing decisions. A few video searches will inadvertently drive us into a rabbit hole of a specific ideology, deeper with every step.
So, as you can see, AI is all around us, manipulating how we consume content and interact with each other online. And with the algorithms slowly steering us apart from each other, they are driving division and encouraging hate. Has the apocalypse begun?
Jakub Krzaczek 
Hi Jakub, interesting post. I have tested a bot that creates images from text. It creates some pretty fascinating images, but I do think that there are definitely risks associated with it if there is no moderation of how they are being used.
In the long run, do you think that AI can be used in a positive way?
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Most of the AI use cases we have today are positive in intention. The issue comes from unintended consequences and the AI paradox. I don’t know if we can control a true AI in the long run.
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