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While it can be and already is being abused, artificial intelligence is not evil in its essence, a tool of the devil, or too dangerous to employ at all.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought this computing technology into popular awareness in a dramatic way. Its astounding, creative abilities in natural language processing and computer vision have contributed to a wider awareness of its capabilities. AI has been with us since the mid-20th century, but only in the last decades has it entered into widespread use in various applications. It is now increasingly common in many sectors of daily life, such as internet search engines, fitness trackers, customer service chatbots, email spam filters, and medical diagnosis, to name a few. However, this ubiquity of AI in our daily lives has largely gone unnoticed by most of us until recently.
Since the 1970s, the business community’s attitude toward AI has alternated between enthusiasm and skeptical disappointment. By the early 1990s, it had developed a sufficiently bad reputation within the business and public sectors that its use was generally kept behind the scenes. However, recent advances and positive press have led to AI’s being touted as the quintessential mark of advanced technology, and so its use is expanding and becoming more apparent.
Even considering the rapid developments in computer-related technologies over the last 50 years, the rate of advancements in artificial intelligence has been astounding and with the arrival of quantum computing on the horizon, the rate and scope of increased capabilities promise to continue to be exceptional. In the meantime, we will continue to witness an explosion of AI-branded applications entering the market, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble that burst at the turn of the third Christian millennium. However, similar to the internet and internet commerce, even if the current AI venture capital bubble bursts, AI itself is here to stay.
Continued below.
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought this computing technology into popular awareness in a dramatic way. Its astounding, creative abilities in natural language processing and computer vision have contributed to a wider awareness of its capabilities. AI has been with us since the mid-20th century, but only in the last decades has it entered into widespread use in various applications. It is now increasingly common in many sectors of daily life, such as internet search engines, fitness trackers, customer service chatbots, email spam filters, and medical diagnosis, to name a few. However, this ubiquity of AI in our daily lives has largely gone unnoticed by most of us until recently.
Since the 1970s, the business community’s attitude toward AI has alternated between enthusiasm and skeptical disappointment. By the early 1990s, it had developed a sufficiently bad reputation within the business and public sectors that its use was generally kept behind the scenes. However, recent advances and positive press have led to AI’s being touted as the quintessential mark of advanced technology, and so its use is expanding and becoming more apparent.
Even considering the rapid developments in computer-related technologies over the last 50 years, the rate of advancements in artificial intelligence has been astounding and with the arrival of quantum computing on the horizon, the rate and scope of increased capabilities promise to continue to be exceptional. In the meantime, we will continue to witness an explosion of AI-branded applications entering the market, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble that burst at the turn of the third Christian millennium. However, similar to the internet and internet commerce, even if the current AI venture capital bubble bursts, AI itself is here to stay.
Continued below.
What place does AI have in ministry or the lay apostolate? Part One
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