Of course not.
Many writers in mainstream (and not so main) media are rushing to get (mostly) unfounded opinions published about the power and future of these artificial intelligence (machine learning) apps, especially ChatGPT.
Will anyone human ever write anything anymore? What will become of education? Will humans become slaves?
There is little new in these musings that couldn’t have been found in the Terminator movie series beginning in 1984. The theme of humans rebelling against the technological overlords.
I’ve covered technology advances for industrial and manufacturing applications for 25 years. I’ve observed, learned, used, contemplated technology for much longer than that. We have all seen this theme repeated to ad nauseam. The new technologies seldom turn out to be as apocryphal as worriers feared, but humans also learned how to use them for our benefit (although sometimes also harm).
Some we’ve talked about for years only to have the conversation suddenly pivoted to something new.
Think metaverse.
Facebook, the company, changed its name to Meta in order to capture the trend of using virtual reality as a way of sucking in users and capturing more data that can be sold to advertisers in order to keep the profits rolling in. Suddenly Meta discovered the metaverse was years, if not decades, away, as it pivots toward finding uses for these AI-powered chat technologies.
Meanwhile, I’m at my sister-in-law’s winter house in Florida where the ask Alexa such important queries as “what is the temperature outside” or “what is the humidity” or “turn on the living room lights”.
As for production/manufacturing use cases, I’ve yet to see anything. Security will be an issue, of course. It’s always listening. Where will we find application where speech is the best input, especially with an increasingly diverse workforce speaking in a variety of accents and dialects?
Will it be like VR/AR? Or like edge/cloud?
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Gary