Before we start, let's just clarify what we mean by AI - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.

 Here is an excellent place to see the historical evolution of AI in simple terms - https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence​

Now Intelligent AI - Artificial intelligence is impacting the future of virtually every industry and every human being. Artificial intelligence has acted as the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT, and it will continue to act as a technological innovator for the foreseeable future. As it evolves AI will learn from itself and the AIoT globally and build an ever changing intelligence, based on the data it gathers and interprets. For example in education we have Intelligent tutors , driven and enhanced by AI that learn every millisecond about the person engaging with them. They can already and will continue to adapt, change, transform and deliver personalised 'learning' scenarios to each person based on the intelligence gathered with every interaction. - Evolution to Revolution in education and as such in life and society and in the skills and upskilling required to be truly and meaningfully 'educated' in and for the 21 Century.

Here is an excellent place to see the revolution that is driving AI into the future in simple terms - https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-future
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  • Transportation: Although it could take a decade or more to perfect them, autonomous cars will one day ferry us from place to place as a normal way of travel. .
  • Manufacturing: AI powered robots work alongside humans to perform a limited range of tasks like assembly and stacking, and predictive analysis sensors keep equipment running smoothly.
  • Healthcare: In the comparatively AI-nascent field of healthcare, diseases are more quickly and accurately diagnosed, drug discovery is sped up and streamlined, virtual nursing assistants monitor patients and big data analysis helps to create a more personalized patient experience.
  • Education: Textbooks are digitized with the help of AI, early-stage virtual tutors assist human instructors and facial analysis gauges the emotions of students to help determine who’s struggling or bored and better tailor the experience to their individual needs.
  • Media: Journalism is harnessing AI, too, and will continue to benefit from it. Bloomberg uses Cyborg technology to help make quick sense of complex financial reports. The Associated Press employs the natural language abilities of Automated Insights to produce 3,700 earning reports stories per year — nearly four times more than in the recent past.
  • Customer Service: Last but hardly least, Google is working on an AI assistant that can place human-like calls to make appointments at, say, your neighborhood hair salon. In addition to words, the system understands context and nuance.

A Human-Centred Approach to the AI Revolution

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Envision a future where people and machines are collaborators, not competitors. What does that look like?

     In 1950, computing pioneer Alan Turing predicted that in a few decades, computers would convincingly mimic human intelligence — a feat known as passing the Turing Test.
     Fast-forward to earlier 2022 when a Google software engineer, Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type. Lemoine then announced that his conversations with the company’s AI-powered chatbot had convinced him that it had become “sentient.”
“I know a person when I talk to it,” he told the Washington Post. (Google said that he was “anthropomorphizing” the bot and fired him.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/​

     Sentient robots have inspired decades of dystopian science fiction. Now, real life has started to take on a fantastical tinge with GPT-3, a text generator that can spit out a movie script, and DALL-E 2, an image generator that can conjure up visuals based on any combination of words — both from the research lab OpenAI. Emboldened, technologists from well-funded research labs focused on building AI that surpasses human intelligence have teased the idea that consciousness is around the corner.

     Most academics and AI practitioners, however, say the words and images generated by artificial intelligence systems such as LaMDA produce responses based on what humans have already posted on Wikipedia, Reddit, message boards and every other corner of the internet. And that doesn’t signify that the model understands meaning.

“We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,” said Emily M. Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington. 

      The facts are that this is really leading to a big debate that must take place sooner rater than later as AI is not going away and sentient or not, it is today, one could easily argue all pervasive in society.

Read More here:
​hai.stanford.edu/news/human-centered-approach-ai-revolution
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www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/6/191153/Google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-AI-bot-had-become-sentient

AI 4 Intelligent AI!?

AI4FUTURE is an international network of urban labs where artists and young activists cooperate to create awareness through the use of Artificial Intelligence to serve the community. It involves three different European countries: Italy, Spain and Netherlands.
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It aims at enhancing the understanding and dissemination of AI related technologies for the active and creative participation of young activists to the European cultural scene, allowing them to work with artists for a joint creation of a new urban community awareness. 
                                                https://ai4future.eu/

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