The AI revolution
ChatGPT-style tech is revolutionizing the tech landscape – and fast! A friend used the following prompt on Meta AI to recreate a drawing, named Doda, that she made a while ago: “A girl with bunny ears, one ear has a bow that is red, and her hair is brown. She is wearing a carrot pin, earrings, and an eye patch; she has blue eyes."
In response to the input, here’s what AI had to offer: Shocked by the results, what stunned me even more was that this is just the beginning – technologies like generative AI are already blurring boundaries in creativity. With over 100 million users exploring ChatGPT every week, this AI chatbot has greatly impacted work dynamics across the globe, while also concomitantly revolutionizing a myriad of things that were being performed conventionally.
The impact of Generative AI
Coupled with that, generative AI – trained on vast volumes of data – can create new content, like essays or images, thereby having advanced capabilities. This is achieved through Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) which feed on the heaps of data provided to them. NLP is a process where a computer is taught to read or understand speech like a human. For instance, OpenAI’s DALL-E technology generates pictures from text inputs from the users.
Alexa and Siri understand the question you ask and then provide a relevant answer. An LLM is a computer program that understands and generates human language. It is a result of carrying out NLP on large amounts of data.
The Future of AI
Such advancements have prompted people to ask: what does the near future hold? This leads to a noteworthy aspect of this discussion: the competition between big companies, like Google, OpenAI, and Meta, among others, to create the best AI. This race could lead to an unprecedented (and probably unchecked) advancement in the field of AI in the years to come, and a symbiotic relationship would emerge between various AI enterprises.
It is safe to say that a boom is forthcoming in the tech landscape across the globe in the upcoming years, and an increasing number of businesses and corporations would be driven by these AI technologies.
AI in Pakistan
This begs the question, how has this groundbreaking technology affected Pakistan? Pakistanis have been quick to realize that AI can make a great number of tasks far less daunting. Many AI tools help eCommerce businesses deploy keywords in their products for better visibility. This is the art of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and with a large number of Pakistanis venturing into eCommerce, AI could not have come at a better time for them.
Furthermore, clinics, hospitals, and other healthcare industry counterparts make use of AI for sorting out data on patients and keeping inventory in check. The younger generation has been quicker to acknowledge AI, using it smartly to do their work more efficiently.
Conclusion
The crux of this piece is that AI is no longer a futuristic, utopian concept; rather it is already of paramount importance in our present reality. And although it took us a while to welcome it, we need to realize it is here to stay and only improve.
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