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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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May 1, 2023

Only a self-aggrandizing egomaniac could claim to be the inventor of AI.  Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

 

AI has been evolving since the 70's among multiple groups scattered all over the globe working independantly & collaboratively on various aspects of AI.  I know engineers & scientists who worked on early AI systems at Bell Labs (Livermore, CA), IBM Research, CalTech's JPL (Pasadena, CA), NASA (Cocoa Bch, FL) and MIT (Cambridge, MA).  Nobody worked solo. These were team projects with various funding sources -- long before Google entered the picture.

 

Currently, scientists at the University of Texas, Austin are using large language models to train AI to read thoughts from MRI scans. If successful, this could have life-changing impact for people with dysphasia and other paralyzing disabilities. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/science/ai-speech-language.html

 

Despite what naysayers want you to believe, AI is not the boogie man.  But proper use of the technology needs to be carefully examined even if humans aren't comfortable discussing it yet. 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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Despite what naysayers want you to believe, AI is not the boogie man.  But proper use of the technology needs to be carefully examined even if humans aren't comfortable discussing it yet. 

 


By @Nancy OShea

 

Not sure someone who obviously is/was well respected and worked for Google, 'and credited with creating the technology that became the bedrock of A.I. systems' is a naysayer, more like they know the truth, better than most, moreso than those now just starting to 'play' with fire. I think sensible people, that I've listened to over the last few weeks, are suggesting, stop work on it, until it is more understood and can be controlled. 

 

 

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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May 1, 2023

Nothing but PR razzmatazz.  AI didn't suddenly emerge from the ashes one day at Google Labs. It's been slowly evolving over several decades. 

 

And Google is hardly the first or last kid on the block with a new AI. Good luck putting this genie back into the bottle. 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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