决策自动化

未来的人工智能就在这里.

一种自动机器人真空吸尘器, video calls with friends and another with your boss, smart homes with endless capabilities and wearable technology.

What sounds like today’s norm is the thing of TV cartoons past.

《全球赌博十大网站》动画片, 最初在20世纪60年代播出, 展示了一个四口之家, 还有他们的机器狗, and how they used artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make their everyday tasks and lives simpler.

跳到2024年, and we are engaging with AI tools as part of our daily lives to accomplish the same goals. We are remotely controlling the lights in our homes, tracking our heart rates and sleep patterns from a watch, asking voice assistants to answer simple questions and using navigation tools to help us with traffic.

在去年, 生成式人工智能的流行, which utilizes data sets to create originally generated content in the forms of text, 图片, 音频也显著增加. The most popular and often talked about AI program is ChatGPT — an AI chatbot tool utilizing foundational large language models, 比如GPT-4, 这会产生对话.

“Everyone is talking about ChatGPT and for good reason — it has redefined the standards for artificial intelligence and shown how machines can learn the complexities of human language and communicate with you through a chatbot. The experience of communicating with the chatbot is no different from us chatting with a friend via text messaging,什维塔Kailani说, M.S., 工商管理硕士, director for the Center of Teaching and Learning, who was an early adopter of the technology in 2022. “I'm passionate about technology and new innovations pertaining to higher education — so I had to look at this new platform and ask, “这是一种时尚吗?? 它会一直存在吗, to become a part of our daily lives and be ubiquitous and accessible to all?’”

未来就是现在

The capabilities behind generative AI go further and are much broader than most users are aware of.

“AI’s ability to perform cognitive functions associated with the human mind are ever expanding —  from the perceiving of content, 学习和调整的能力, 解决问题和创造力. Everyone assumes it is the future when we speak about AI and what it can do — but the future is now and is here,比雅恩·伯格说, Ph.D., 数学和计算机科学教授, who is an internationally recognized expert in business intelligence. “We are seeing advances in technology that people expect to be years away when in actuality it is occurring now and being put to use. 例如, when you go on Netflix and are looking for a particular movie, 但不知道演员和片名, the meta tags are not giving you the result you want. But Google is working on an image search within the movies themselves. So, 你说, ‘Show me all the movies where a woman in a black skirt slides on a banana peel’ and then all movies where that occurs appear. The search is occurring within the movies themselves and not just how they are tagged.”

It feels unbelievable that every movie could be referenced using one detail or a particular scene. However, according to Berg, it is real and happening.

“That's what people said in 1996 when we first had a search engine that searched all the Internet. 想想今天, you search the whole Internet at sub-second speed, everything that's ever been written by billions of people, 全球网赌十大网站认为这是理所当然的,”贝格说。.

What other Jetsons-style imaging technologies are also on the horizon? According to Berg it is a blend between video gaming and movies.

“Today, video gaming generates more revenue than movies in the U.S. And most of the things that you see in the video game, 比如不活动的背景角色, 人们突然出现, or buildings and frames — instead of game designers having to draw everything out, they're using AI to create randomization within the game,”贝格说。.

那是什么样子的呢?

If you play the game five times, it may be slightly different every time. A building might have changed in height or color; the person walking across the street might be a woman in a red dress and then next time is a man in a black suit.

“In gaming, the game is no longer designed, it is probabilistic. We're basically saying that every time you play the game it'll be slightly different, 因此它会让你保持兴趣. 你甚至都没有注意到. A lot of times people play the game five times, they didn't notice that a lot of the backgrounds and the non-actors are generated and are constantly changing,”贝格说。.

Movie studios such as Pixar and DreamWorks are creating films that also generate content that make it so that you might watch your favorite movie 15 times and each time, 有一点不同.

“In a computer-generated movie, you can do a random assignment. This character could either walk across the street; he can attack you; he can jump a tall building; he can bite you. And there's all these behaviors you can assign and randomly pick one every time. So even the people who made the movie have no idea how it's going to end. So instead of having a movie that today is curated, 减少, 编辑, 而且总是固定在同一部电影里, 它每次都变得新鲜,”贝格说。. 换句话说, 你可能愿意看同一部电影, 30, 40, 50 times because you don't really know how it's going to end, 而且每次都在变. 那不是很酷吗?”

作为一种视觉叙事形式, these evolving forms of AI are generating headlines that could write themselves.

“The attractiveness of these AI programs that can do everything — be the writer, 编辑器, 一个事实的管理者，这是令人兴奋的,凯拉尼说, who has held multiple workshops on campus for faculty looking to learn more about generative AI and how to integrate it into their classrooms. “总的来说，人工智能可以发挥重要作用, especially when it comes to things relating to time efficiency. 例如, if I'm working on an essay or research paper as a student and need help from the Writing Center to get guidance on writing style, 语法, 句子结构或组织, I need to wait till the next day when I can make an appointment with them to seek help. 但这里有生成式人工智能, 你可以让它帮你校对, 和繁荣, 你会得到一个相当不错的回应, 这再一次, you have to still go back and check behind it — but it does the bulk of the heavy lifting.”

有什么问题吗??

As incredible technology breakthroughs continue with AI — they also bring about challenges and problems. ChatGPT版本3的知识库.5, the free version most accessible to Internet users, is limited to information shared in 2021 and before, which can often present inaccurate or false information that sounds not only plausible but factual.

“Say you ask the platform to tell you about the medical standards for a colonoscopy. It will share what it believes is the most up-to-date and populated answer,凯拉尼说. “But the standards were changed within the last year and were not accessible to you since it was behind the paywall for the paid version 4.”

As digital citizens consuming information through these platforms, the discernment between fact and the generative AI hallucinations is needed since information is neatly packaged for users, making it hard to detect the misinformation or assumptions that the tool has created.

“If I go into the program and ask it to write me a story about Dr. 勒努瓦-雷恩大学的Bjarne Berg说, it will start by pulling all the information available on the Internet and compiling from there. Having done this exercise in class, it crafted the following: Dr. Berg started his career in computer science — and right there it got it wrong. 我没有计算机科学的学位, but given the frequency of my name being associated with computer science, it automatically assumed I had a degree in the field when really I started my career in the Navy,”贝格说。. 

These generative tools' main goal is to condense large amounts of content and data into responses that are helpful. The accuracy of the information generated is a secondary goal.

“AI generated tools are a great place to start when it comes to compiling data, text and information — but you cannot take it all for fact — just like the hallucination about my degree, 它只是把找到的信息拼凑在一起,”贝格说。. “所以负担就落在了用户身上, 对于全球网赌十大网站的学生来说, to do the extra legwork to ensure the content they asked to be generated is factual. But also — computer generated content does not care about being polite, 种族主义, 性别歧视或使用不恰当的语言. Since AI is learning as we code and teach it, it is going to discriminate.”

As more faculty are implanting the use of AI into their courses, students are expected to cite AI as a source — just as you would any other website, 日记或书.

“It is up to us as educators to educate our students about how to approach AI tools in a way that is ethical — ethical in how we teach it, 全球网赌十大网站如何将其用于研究, how our students approach it for their usage and in ensuring academic integrity is present,凯拉尼分享道. “We are encouraging students to use critical thinking evaluation skills to figure out the weak spots — what did it miss? 在回应中是否存在偏见? AI generated text often has biases and doesn’t look at a topic or prompt from multiple perspectives. 通常, it provides a very superficial overview of the topic and doesn’t cover all perspectives or an in-depth critical analysis of the topic/text.”

As a senior computer science and cybersecurity major, Ringo Nguyen ’24 has familiarized himself with many AI platforms including ChatGPT, 谷歌的Gemini和微软的Copilot.

“Generative AI is a trend that is not going away anytime soon, so it is important to have a working knowledge of multiple platforms,Nguyen分享道。. “As we familiarize ourselves with new and emerging tools, we need to see them as one source that needs fact-checking and to be supplemental — not the only answer.”

His advice to students and others who are looking at AI generated content and want to use it?

“There are always pros and cons to using new technologies — especially those that are on trend. But developing a deeper understanding of the technologies will provide you with so much knowledge and benefit you in the end. Embracing innovation with an open mindset will enable you to adapt and thrive in today’s rapidly changing world.阮说。. “These technologies and tools were created for human beings by human beings. So, at the end of the day, we are creating a future benefiting everyone.”