To be completely honest, a total surge in the availability and efficacy of artificial intelligence has to be one of the most amazing and terrifying technological changes in recent times. After all, while AI has certainly had a role in technology for quite some time now, the advent of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney – which can produce written text and art, respectively – has been nothing short of revolutionary in the field of AI. With that in mind, this guide aims to explain some of the most important information about AI and how you could use it to improve your lifestyle.
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AI is freely available in a range of forms currently, which means you can get started and dive right into using the best artificial intelligence apps right away. There is literally nothing stopping you from getting stuck in right now. However, if you want to know more about what AI is currently and what it is capable of, you don’t have to look far to find that information. These tools are a huge part of the news cycle right now, and part of that comes from a big issue that some people have with the idea of generative AI.
The Ethical Dilemma
Regardless of where you stand on whether or not AI will eventually rise up and overthrow humanity, there is a much more prescient and contemporary ethical issue currently taking place when it comes to AI: the idea that AI is stealing art.
Now that’s a pretty big accusation to levy, but it is the stance that many artists and writers take against generative AI currently.
The reason for this idea comes from the way that current generative AI produces the content that they make. Regardless of what kind of content an AI makes, they learn how to make that content by processing huge amounts of that content and referencing it when they are given a prompt to produce something new. This means that if you ask ChatGPT, for example, to write you a sonnet about a hamster overthrowing the bourgeoisie, then the AI that drives the program will reference as many sonnets as it can to fulfill your request.
However, this leads to an issue. If the AI is producing content by essentially taking a huge amount of work and sticking it together like patchwork to create something new, then wouldn’t the art it produces essentially be the result of stealing other artists’ work and combining it to make something new? That is the question and there is plenty of room for debate on both sides – so feel free to learn more about it if that interests you.
The Benefits for You
Of course, if you want to make use of AI for your own personal reasons, then there are plenty of different ways to do it, from having applications like Midjourney produce wonderful art that you can use for your DND games, to having ChatGPT explain concepts to you that you were having trouble grasping.
AI has a real potential to provide you with some serious benefits, and as it develops, those benefits will only improve. So, why not spend some time getting to grips with the tools available to you now and see where the tools go in the future?
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