Saving us from artificial intelligence

If you’ve been following developments in technology over the last few months, you can’t fail to have noticed the advent of artificial intelligence. There are AI tools that can take a text prompt and respond with a realistic face, a painting in the style of a well-known artist, or a Shakespearean poem. Some of these tools, such as ChatGPT, which I have mentioned several times before in recent weeks, can translate and edit your text, convert computer code in one language into another, they can even generate working computer code given an appropriate prompt. They can write news articles, essays, even research papers. Given suitable input. There are concerns in many quarters that people will use such tools to cheat at school, in their jobs, and to generate digital content that is not strictly authentic. There is also the question of who owns the copyright to content generated by AI. I would suggest that educators, publishers, gallery owners, and others need to quickly catch up with the technology. It is here, it is now. It is not going away. We all need to adapt to these new tools and recognise that we cannot ignore them just as we could not ignore the invention of the world wide web back in the late 1980s and its introduction to the world in the early 1990s. (See also the internet before it, the television, radio, the telegraph, the printing press, cave paintings, the hand axe). At the moment, a keen eye can quite readily detect AI output, but the tools are being ref...
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