As the Artificial intelligence industry skyrockets, it's essential to question who truly benefits.
Generative AI, touted as revolutionary, may not live up to its promises."Artificial intelligence” has captured the global imagination. Claims are made that generative AI is as revolutionary as the internet itself. When you strip away the hype, AInt not only does not do what it is purported to do, but what it does do has a great number of negative effects, including on the environment.
But what is all this excitement about? At the simplest level, AInt is nothing but a very fancy “auto-complete” using statistical modelling. The software on your phone contains large statistical tables which show that the most likely word which begins “theat” in English is “theatre” – although in the American dialect of English, that most likely word is instead “theater”. Thus, the software gives the possible auto-complete “theatre” after you’ve typed “theat” – or it gives “theater” if you’re doing this typing in New York.
The parameter values are found after extremely costly computations using terabytes of “training data”, often scraped from the public internet in ways that might violate copyright law and almost certainly violate creators’ wishes for how their works will be used. We have instances of ChatGPT documents generated by lawyers, where references have been produced that simply do not exist and the legal community has not taken kindly to “alternative case law”.
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