https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/feature/ai-and-our-next-evolution
The first time most people could communicate with a computer that responded like a real person was in 2022 when OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT. Just two months later, the app set the record for the fastest-growing user base with 100 million monthly active users.
The service was prone to mistakes and hallucinations, but the conversations felt more or less real. Since then, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology have been stunning. AIs have passed the Turing test, a standard that determines whether a machine thinks by whether a human believes they are communicating with another human being. AIs score better now than humans on the SAT, GRE and LSAT.
Beyond these seemingly shocking advances, most of the AIs all around us remain out of sight. AIs manage energy distribution across the country. On dating sites, they help us pick potential partners. In the world of finance, about 70% of stock trading volume is initiated through algorithmic trading, another form of AI.
“I would say that AI is part of the human system,” said Martin Hilbert a professor of communication in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.
Hilbert is among the many social scientists across Letters and Science who study AI to answer questions about people and society and…
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