Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Communication
The reality, however, is that AI is a broad topic. It ranges from your phone’s calculator to self-driving cars to something in the future that might change the world dramatically. AI refers to all of these things, which is confusing. We use AI all the times in our daily lives, but often, we don't even realize it! In order to realize this, we need to stop thinking about AI as robots…a robot is only a container for AI. An example we all know is Siri. All of the data and software behind Siri is AI, and the woman's voice we hear is a personification of that AI. No Schwarzenegger robot involved at all!
As crazy as it is to believe, many scientists theorize that within the next 50 years we will have AI that can THINK like humans, and therefore do some of same jobs and tasks that only humans can currently do. This is both fascinating and scary to me. The more technology we have, the faster advancements in AI will happen. To put this all into perspective, if we hypothetically time travelled 10 years into the future the technological advancements we would see would be just as shocking to us as they would have been for someone travelling 100 years from the late 18th century into the 1980's. Imagine someone who has only ever travelled by horse and buggy seeing a smartphone for the first time. That's how we could feel seeing 10 years into our future. CRAZY!
Even today we see advancements happening with things like Google Glasses, and self-driving vehicles. What do you think these advancements in the world of AI will mean for us as digital communicators? How does the change the way we think about communication?
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