Updated 100-year study reveals AI is transforming how humans think

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AI is not only transforming how humans work and interact, but also the ways in which they actually think. Pic: Getty Images

In only five years, AI systems used by billions of people have gone from being unable to add up to solving mathematics’ most intractable problems, underlining how fast the technology is evolving.

The latest chapter in a 100-year longitudinal study of AI, tracking its development worldwide, reveals how the bots aren’t only transforming how humans work and interact, but also the ways in which they actually think.

The AI100 report comes down on neither side of the great AI debate – whether it will improve lives or endanger them, possibly existentially for society – but foreshadows epic breakthroughs in medicine, science and machine learning in a supercharged era of AI-driven discovery.

Tellingly, the expert authors also warn: “This report will be out of date by the time you read it.”

University of NSW professor of AI Toby Walsh, the sole member of the 12-member study panel from outside the US or Europe, said he was unabashedly optimistic about the future.

He told The Australian: “Oh, I’m completely on board with the potential benefits. The risks are real, but they can be managed.

The third five-yearly instalment of the Stanford Institute’s longitudinal study, entitled AI Goes Mainstream, picks up from where it left off in 2021 at the dawn of generative AI, the innovation that empowered chatbots using large language models and supercomputing.

The report finds AI went from being unable to reliably perform basic sums to cracking the Jacobian conjecture in algebraic geometry, a problem that had defied mathematicians for 90 years.

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