I had a talk with a friend about artificial intelligence and he was lamenting that in a few years many things would be taken over by artificial intelligence... I believe that my friend is actually quite wrong. Why? Because I think that AI is already all around us and we often don't really know it.
Social media
Some time ago, I watched the move „social dilemma“ on Netflix. What I remember best is that the algorithms that are used by these social media companies already have self learning processes inbuilt. The company simply has to define what their objectives are (time on the platform, buying decisions, visits,...) and the algorithm adapts itself to reach its goals, learning from the multitude of data that are collected by the platform itself.
A person in this movie said that hardly any human understands what is actually happening with these algorithms. For example, the algorithm realized that if people have extreme opinions, the best thing to keep them on the platform is to present them things that confirm their opinions.... Also it was seen that people with extreme views were prone to believe much quicker in other extreme things.
If somebody says that all this is not at least partially responsible for the growing polarization in the world... well then I don't know what to answer. I believe this is a good example how AI manages to impact our lives without us realizing it.
AI on Hive
We probably all checked out ChatGPT and were amazed by the quality of the answers given by the AI. It's not really surprising that some people started to use this content for their posts and others let the AI generate a whole post for them. Will AI invade Hive? Well I wouldn't see that in a positive light. I'm on hive mainly because of the people. If the majority of the content and interaction was generated by AI, well then I wouldn't want to linger I believe.
Gaming bots
I don't really know whether the different bot provider for Splinterlands are using AI to improve their battling. Honestly, I don't know how they could be so strong without self learning mechanisms. The problem is that nowadays you lose more often playing manually than if you let a bot play your deck. Is it still a game if computers play for you? Probably we will all end up letting bots play with our decks and the difference will be made through the quality of the implemented learning mechanism and who owns the best cards. We might end up racing to buy the best cards that were communicated to us by the bot provider.
The AI makes the best results with exactly this deck....
I think that AI is already everywhere around us and it will become just more present in the long run. I think it's not worth fighting it because like many things before this is a disruptive technology that will change many sectors and of course also hive.
Do we need to fight it on Hive? Do we need to embrace it? And if yes, how do we keep this ecosystem peopled with humans in the first place?
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