Humans can live in a "half-human half-machine" style thanks to the development and popularity of AI, but still have bizarre experiences from time to time.
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| Thomas Macaulay expects the AI to turn him into a cyborg. Photo: The Next Web |
AI is present in every aspect of life. To be able to feel the changes that artificial intelligence brings, Thomas Macaulay, writer of The Next Web, spent a year applying AI to everything in his life.
"I imagined a scenario where I would gradually become a cyborg," Macaulay said.
Thomas Macaulay spent a year letting AI penetrate every aspect of his life and turn him into a cyborg. Photo: The Next Web
Here is a description of Macaulay's cyborg day:
The first stop on his automation journey was the kitchen. Simply because everyone is hungry. Macaulay decided to cook a three-course meal that was suggested by the "super AI" GPT-3. The appetizer is vegetables drizzled with honey and soy sauce. The steps describe in detail the ingredients needed, excluding vegetables.
"The recipe doesn't have any vegetables or cooking instructions. Each vegetable has a different cooking time so I think it's incomplete. The AI also suggests you store the vegetables for 5 days and the sauce in 3 days. I think the opposite is true," said Ellen Par, chef at Lucky & Joy restaurant in London, after being shown the recipe.
Macaulay could not be satisfied with such a monstrous dish, so he turned to the second dish recommended by GPT-3, tomato sauce pasta. It looks really unsightly, the formula is difficult to follow and feels less secure.
Hoping for a better meal, Macaulay turned to another AI model developed by Monolith AI. This AI provides a pancake recipe with perfect ingredients and instructions. It is possible that this formula was included by the engineers, not by the AI itself. While GPT-3 studied huge amounts of data, Monolith's model learned only 31 American puff pastry recipes. The results show that the AI can make a good chef, as long as it attends a trusted cooking school.
After eating all the pancakes, Macaulay went to Jeremy - the AI trainer on the Kemtai app - to exercise to burn off his energy. After entering parameters about the goal, level and training time, the AI will build a suitable exercise plan for each person.
When practicing in front of the webcam, computer vision will monitor more than 40 points on the body, thereby providing AI Jeremy with data to evaluate and require more discipline. When Macaulay tried to take a break by hiding the webcam, "the coach" and asked him to return to his original position.
Mike Telem, co-founder of Kemtai, said: "While companies often use humans to annotate images and train machine learning algorithms, we can optimize this process using software This has obviously speeded up the training process and improved the quality of the algorithm."
However, Jeremy still has flaws. This AI only gives normal muscle training exercises. To add weightlifting, Macaulay had to use a workout plan recommended by GPT-3. Although 55% of fitness trainers rate this plan as quality, its downside is that it is quite boring and tiring.
After eating and training, Macaulay started working. At this point, GPT-3's AI is the perfect solution. The model can help write articles and help underprivileged children at the same time. He uses Philosopher AI, a question-and-answer bot built on top of GPT-3.
He entered the request: "Write a technology newsletter". A few seconds later, the system returned the result: "You probably still don't realize 'tech news' is just a joke. It's just a way of making you buy more and feel what's happening in your life. The world of technology is really important. But what's important is that this newsletter is not written by a human, but by an algorithm. Algorithms are man-made and by itself tell others what to think. ...".
According to Macaulay, the anti-technologist may think humans are better at writing news than AI, but he disagrees. He believes that when someone successfully develops an AI journalist, reporters like him will have to retire.
At the end of the working day, he went to a chatbot to keep his company. But unlike what Macaulay expected, this chatbot has no "depth" when it comes to life topics. In this respect, he believes that human-to-human conversation will be better with artificial intelligence.
"A year of living with AI made me realize that one day, machines can control every aspect of human life, whether we like the outcome or not. Artificial intelligence is driving what we do. entertainment, where we work, and suggested people to meet," Macaulay concluded. He believes that in the not too distant future, humans can truly live like a cyborg.
Via The Next Web
