Is AI our meteor, or is it going the way of the dinosaur?
Ai is the current hot topic inside of programming spaces, the name alone strikes fear into the hearts of many who hear it. With rumours of it taking jobs, killing the environment and much more. Many worry that the software will be going full Skynet before you could say “I’ll be back”.
AI researcher James Shuttleworth discussed with us how this has happened. “When it comes to jobs, Programming is one job that AI is much better with. Compared to the arts, AI can handle numbers. It’s becoming an interesting discussion with AI assisting other AI’s. As the software gets better at fixing itself, eventually it could replace us as coders”
He also commented on the nature of the AI ‘Bubble’. “With recent sales in the industry, and the lack of money being made, we are quickly seeing the software crash. But this is its most vital time as more people are adopting. We will see shortly if it will go the way of the dot com bubble, or the nft bubble. I personally hope it is more dot com, as its uses are numerous, and we should adapt it into a solid tool, just like google.”
The nature of a bubble around AI is something many professionals are questioning, as its still currently climbing inside of the technology adoption life cycle, we don’t yet know if it has reached “The Chasm” just yet, as it is still in the early adopters section (At least most models are, LLM’s such as Chat-GPT are becoming adopted by the masses) So we are yet to know when the bubble will pop.
When the bubble pops, the software will either be abandoned like NFT’s (As James Shuttleworth said) or it will be adopted into everyday life, similarly to how sites like google, amazon and others were able to whether the storm of the dot com bubble popping.
Many are against the implementation of AI especially within the arts, software like GPT 5 and Google’s Gemini has the ability to create images through several dubious methods, including image scrapping. Marcel Elias is one such individual, his company Antfield has developed an invisible water marking system which prevents this type of image scrapping from happening. When asked about why this was important he replied “Well AI will always try to scrape images, but what this does is it enables artists to have more protection over their work, it disrupts images generation”. On the topic about AI’s potential downfall, he just said how it isn’t going anywhere, but the usage might change
With the recent news of OpenAI scrapping SORA 2, the video generation software, many have come to the conclusion that this is it for the AI industry. Along with several other companies pulling out of Open Ai such as Microsoft, it’s becoming clear the lack of money the products are making are discouraging potential investors and the companies who create these, so are seeing in real time the potential downfall of AI? Well, maybe, but in all likelihood we are seeing it enter it cocoon, before it metamorphises into something new.
