Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

Ryan Bridge: Are we taking it too far with AI?


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The future's here. AI is taking over. 

A team of robots kept alive in some giant warehouse with tonnes of electricity are right now whirring away, beavering away on the world's problems. 

AI will soon be marking our students' exams. The Swedish Prime Minister overnight admitted he uses AI for a second opinion on running the country. 

AI architects are in high demand - they're being snapped up like hotcakes. 

Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years - AI engineers are apparently paid upwards of $2.5 million a year. 

The big tech companies are investing billions. The efficiencies are real. AI is changing the world, one data centre at a time. 

So the question is: what do we do about it? 

Some of the teachers are upset because they don't trust AI to mark exams.

But really, we shouldn't trust the teachers. According to the Minister of Education, AI is at least as good as if not better than teachers at getting it right. 

There's some stuff so nuanced you need human eyes across it, but that would be the exception, not the rule. 

As for the Swedish Prime Minister, he's copping flak for not being able to do his job without the help of a robot. But you still need to use judgement, don't you?

You can't just punch in "should I go to war tomorrow" and the blindly follow the answer. 

Is AI not the mental equivalent of a forklift? A tool, a machine, doing the heavy lifting for our brains?

The reality is, it doesn't actually matter how we feel about AI and the moral dilemmas it raises. 

Like mobile phones, the internet, smart phones and social media, it's one of those phenomenon that's taking over our lives, whether we like it or not. 

The best we can probably do is just get used to it.

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