"Within 13 years, the car wiped out horses from the streets of New York, the speed of the technological revolution is always very fast and no one can stand outside that road," said Dr. Oualid Ali, President and Founder of Future Cities Council, spoke at the opening speech of the Youth Global Forum event in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Extremely unprecedented industrial revolution
Hundreds of attendees from more than 42 countries present in the Netherlands to discuss with experts on the topic "World future: at the crossroads of Industry 5.0 and sustainable development".
According to experts, we are fast approaching a future where machines and technology will begin to replace people completely at work. There, people will have to choose between two worlds, "paradise" or "prison" created by our own inventions.
"5.0 is an unprecedented technological revolution in history," said Dr. Ali emphasized, "for the first time in history, machines have the ability to replace our minds, even helping us make decisions."
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| The rise of AI worries many experts, even though the future of humanity remains uncertain. Photo: YTGlobal |
Same views, GS. Liaoyuan Zeng, China University of Electronic Science and Technology, said that the reality of technology has replaced people in many fields.
“Looking at the scale of the world, we have seen machines, AIs cultivating, cooking, home delivery. Tesla already has a self-driving car, in Japan people have used teaching robots, ”he said.
Along with the development of AI, the fields of life are increasingly filled with a workforce of machines, raising many concerns for experts about the disruption in human society and problems. humanity has never encountered.
And that future has only 2 turns.
The two futures of humanity
"Utiopia or dystopia, heaven or prison, we need to choose and will choose from now on". Ali pointed to the crossroads of mankind.
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| Two scenarios after the 5.0 technology revolution. |
In one direction, machines will replace us in most jobs, but from there arise other jobs that machines cannot do. Since then, mankind has continued to develop and create creations to improve the society.
This is the path that mankind has gone through in the past four technological revolutions, each time an innovation changes science, we open new gates to the next revolution. Increasingly, people are increasingly separated from the original jobs, limbs to towards jobs requiring higher thinking and creativity.
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| "Rise of the Robots" is a long-awaited future in fiction, fiction, but now has the potential to come true. Photo: Kristian Hammerstad. |
In the other direction, people will be completely replaced by machines, thinking machines. In this perspective, all work is done by machines, people no longer have a place in the labor system, and thus become prisoners of their own creativity.
This scenario never had the potential to become a reality until recently, as we got closer to artificial intelligence.
“In the 60 years since its inception, AI seems to be only good at 3 skill groups: image, language, logical thinking. We never thought they would reach the level of humankind in the fields of art and creativity, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, ”GS said. Zeng explained.
He gave examples of how AI was able to compose symphonic music, poems, and even Facebook's AI created a new language that worried them and interrupted two artificial brains.
This has increasingly shaken the absolute in man-machine relations.
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| MuseNET, a project from OpenAI that can compose a 4-minute song from 10 instruments, is considered the beginning of AI learning creative skills. |
Coping with technology flood
“Today we talk about AI the same way we talk about the weather, but do you remember my biggest impression of AI? Alpha Go from Google, who led the legendary Lee Se-dol to retire, ”GS. Zang expressed.
According to him, Alpha Go is an example of how humanity will be replaced by artificial intelligence. And there, we need to quickly prepare the people for this technological revolution.
"Revolution 5.0 revolves around people, not machines," said Dr. Ali explained, “Our job is to prepare in advance, to look at situations and scenarios that may occur in the future, thereby setting standards and controlling the machines that can be used to combat. a certain social group ”.
He took an example of Google's algorithm being taught to return images of women for the keyword "nurse", Facebook identified black people as "gorrila", or Microsoft's AI was taught by racist users. clan in less than 24 hours.
"Like other scientific achievements, AI can be a hero or a devil, depending on how people use it," GS said. Zang concludes, "we are forced to embrace this revolution, so learn to love it, and at the same time fear it."