The surge of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown exponentially, with the global market expected to increase twenty times by 2030. AI has become an integral part of the global technology landscape, with AI research, startups, and private investments all experiencing significant growth.
Businesses worldwide are exploring and using artificial intelligence, with 60% of individuals expecting significant changes in their lives due to AI within the next three to five years. ChatGPT, for example, has become a game changer in artificial intelligence, hitting one hundred million monthly active users in January 2023.
Artificial Intelligence Needs Human Intervention
Despite these rapid advancements, artificial intelligence still has limitations, with incidents and controversies increasing twenty-six-fold since 2012. Today’s AI lacks the ability to narrow focus during research, set its own prompts for exploration, exert judgment about data, select and determine vital data, or explain why it came to specific conclusions.
Artificial intelligence cannot tap into human soft skills like creativity, empathy, and teamwork. Although some AI applications, including ChatGPT, can pass the Turing Test, none have passed the Lovelace Test. Consequently, major world leaders and technology experts have signed a petition to halt the development of AI.
Artificial intelligence needs human intervention to reach new heights, with searches for AI services on Fiverr alone up 1,400%. According to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, AI should serve as a co-pilot, helping humanity harness its collective power, creativity, and will. Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, emphasizes that AI is made by and for humans, and intended to impact human lives and society.
Combining artificial intelligence with human intelligence can unlock AI’s potential, as demonstrated by Google’s 2009 project to digitize its back-catalog of books using ReCAPTCHA.
By involving users who needed to prove their humanity to verify words, Google was able to digitize its entire archive, including thirteen million articles from the New York Times, by 2011. This success highlights the importance of human judgment and decisive action when using artificial intelligence.
In conclusion, creativity and adaptability are the top qualities artificial intelligence needs from humans. As artificial intelligence is inherently motiveless and requires a human element, it is up to humans to direct it through curation by focusing on essential questions such as what to focus on, how to curate it, and which criteria to include. Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence starts with human interaction, and those who can create human-centric commands hold the key to the future.
Learn more about what AI needs from humans in the infographic below;
Source: Academic Influence
