How AI will change the world by 2030

Written by The Daily Mail on May 30, 2023. Posted in Current News

By 2030, Artificial Intelligence could be looking after our elderly, making films and teaching lessons — or it could have wiped out the human race

These are the wildly different predictions from eight AI experts from the US and UK, who predict how the technology may change our lives within the next decade.

It comes amid growing calls for regulators to put the lid on the development of AI, amid fears that it could lead to waves of job losses and render us obsolete.

AI technology could become so good that it will start to generate entire films within a day, predicts New York-based writer of Apple TV Sci-fi series Silo Mr Howey.

Speaking to DailyMail.com, he said it was only a matter of time before AI tools were capable of making films.

‘I’ve had access to alpha versions of art generators for a few years now, and I’ve watched how quickly they go from very rough approximations to photo-realism so good that you can’t distinguish the AI art from photography,’ he said.

‘Generated films are now in the same early stages that I saw still art go through two or so years ago. It’s only a matter of time and processing power before films are created in real-time.

‘The films will be terrible at first, but they’ll only get better. I think people will watch them and be fascinated by them even when they aren’t very good, the same way we find our nonsensical dreams captivating.’

He added: ‘These things only get better, and their improvements are permanent. They don’t have to re-learn and start over the way we do. They just grow and grow.’

His comments echo predictions from the director of Avengers: Endgame Joe Russo, who predicted last month that AI would be able to make movies in just two years’ time.

Mr Russo told the entertainment news website Collider: ‘I’m on the board of a few AI companies.

‘Potentially, what you could do with [AI] is obviously use it to engineer storytelling and change storytelling.’

Teach lessons

AI also has the potential to transform the education sector and tailor lesson plans to classes.

Dr Ajaz Ali, the head of business and computing at Ravensbourne University in London, made the prediction.

He said children could soon have their own personalized AI tutor who will deliver lessons tailored to the areas they are struggling with.

This could even be done through augmented-reality glasses or robots, he suggested.

Dr Ali said: ‘We could also see AI-powered virtual tutors, who will provide personalized feedback and support to students.

‘In the next ten years, we may see AI-enabled virtual classrooms that can create a more immersive and interactive learning experience.’

It is expected that AI could be used to complement current conventional teaching methods, rather than fully replacing teachers.

Currently, available AI platforms like ChatGPT can already generate lesson plans for teachers tailored to a specific class.

What of the human race?

Amid suggestions that AI will improve our lives immeasurably, there are also experts warning that it could end the human race by 2030.

Among the doomsayers is American computer scientist Eliezer Yudkowsky who has bet $100 that the human race will be wiped out entirely by January 1, 2030.

A renowned researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California, he is one of the most vocal experts to warn over AI.

Writing in Time earlier this year, he said: ‘If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.

‘The likely result of humanity facing down an opposed superhuman intelligence is a total loss.

‘Valid metaphors include “a 10-year-old trying to play chess against Stockfish 15”, “the 11th century trying to fight the 21st century”, and “Australopithecus trying to fight Homo sapiens”.’

He says that AI could obliterate humanity if its intelligence surpasses humans, and that it then develops different values and goals to humans.

Other leading experts saying that AI could ‘destroy civilization’ include billionaire Elon Musk and British scientist Stephen Hawking — although they stop short of suggesting all humans will be wiped out by 2030.

Musk has been sounding the alarm over AI for years, warning just last month that it could destroy civilization — although suggesting it will not totally wipe out humans because we are an ‘interesting’ part of the universe. He claimed that it would be more intelligent than humans by 2030.

Dr Hawking previously warned that AI could ‘take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate’ which humans, which are limited by biological evolution, would struggle to keep up with.

‘We may face an intelligence explosion that ultimately results in machines whose intelligence exceeds ours by more than ours exceeds that of snails.’

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