Blog Post #3

Age of AI

    In the film "In The Age of AI" I learned a lot about how AI has impacted our society in both positive and negative senses. Personally, I find the innovation of AI to be very interesting but also a little bit of a cheat system. I'm a very by the book person, and using AI to help in anything I have to do feels like a cheat, even if its not for an assignment. Say I have my AI read over my essay as a grammar check, I hate it because I feel as if it changes everything to sound robot-like and not in my voice. Same thing, if it's reading over my resume, it doesn't have the knowledge to understand what is what and which item should be placed first and my experience with each. 

    There's obviously more uses with AI besides chatgpt as this documentary pointed out, like helping with breast cancer research, and starting the business of driverless trucks for quicker and more efficient deliveries. 

    For the cancer research part, it was headed by a woman named Regina Barzilay, an Israeli computer scientist from MIT. Her job is to use develop "targeted screening strategies to improve breast cancer risk prediction" and has proven to be affected with the short amount of time the project's been active. Since the summer of 2023, MIRAI has had a 33% cancer detection rate, compared to the prior method of cancer detection (breast density) at 6.4%. 

    The driverless truck business, EMBARK TRUCKS INC, was at first a massive success with companies excited to pay less for their necessary deliveries. This company used an AI software to program trucks to drive nonstop, across country for more efficient, delivery services. This was great for corporations because it made everything cheaper, but not great for people because it started to take those in the trucking business out. Sadly for EMBARK, in March of 2023 production started to slow down, employees were laid off, and the company now ceases to exist. It was a great idea, and good execution but it just wasn't something our world was quite ready for yet. 

    Overall, I found this film to be eye-opening to what AI can achieve and how far it can bring our civilization into the future, but it also highlighted how it can be dangerous to our labor forces which is in-turn bad for our economy.