Ewa Luger and Shannon Vallor outline how a new research programme will use voices from the arts and humanities to help produce a responsible AI ecosystem.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are advancing fast. How can the arts and humanities, and a new UKRI programme, help create a responsible AI ecosystem?
The recent, much reported emergence of commercially marketable AI technologies like ChatGPT, AlphaFold, DALL-E and LaMDA heralds a vast new source of social power. Of course, today’s AI systems are not machine minds, but mathematical tools that appear intelligent only by extracting useful patterns from data created by intelligent humans.
But it turns out that we can do a lot with this kind of borrowed intelligence – we can ask a machine to crack the molecular code of protein structures, to generate clever new poems and essays, to create virtually any kind of image we can describe, to synthesise new sounds and videos on demand, even write new computer code for other machines. It remains to be seen what else we might do...Keep reading on UK Research and Innovation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are advancing fast. How can the arts and humanities, and a new UKRI programme, help create a responsible AI ecosystem?
The recent, much reported emergence of commercially marketable AI technologies like ChatGPT, AlphaFold, DALL-E and LaMDA heralds a vast new source of social power. Of course, today’s AI systems are not machine minds, but mathematical tools that appear intelligent only by extracting useful patterns from data created by intelligent humans.
But it turns out that we can do a lot with this kind of borrowed intelligence – we can ask a machine to crack the molecular code of protein structures, to generate clever new poems and essays, to create virtually any kind of image we can describe, to synthesise new sounds and videos on demand, even write new computer code for other machines. It remains to be seen what else we might do...Keep reading on UK Research and Innovation.