Concluding Discussion
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
I am interested in things that AI can do to empower people and I don't want the future where people are kind of on the side of automation I want people to be very in an empowered State and I want them to be amazing even much more amazing than today...
Questions
What are the opportunities and challenges for using generative AI in FOLIO?
Opportunities
- Enhancing staff and patron workflows within FOLIO, increasing efficiency and productivity.
- Improve discoverability of Libraries collections and services
Challenges
- Addressing the ethical considerations discussed earlier in the workshop.
Final Thoughts
In his article Give Every AI a Soul-or-Else3, science fiction author David Brin proposes a solution for addressing the AI Alignment and the potential existential threats of advanced AI. He suggests a system accountability achieved not necessarily through laws or regulations, but through a dynamic ecosystem where other AI models critique and challenge each other. This aligns with Albert Wenger's recent blog post4 which argues that least safe number of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is one. Having multiple ASIs competing in an ecosystem would decrease the chances of any one ASI becoming too powerful.
Now, we are witnessing the birth of a new form of intelligence, one that may seem alien at times, but holds immense potential for collaboration and progress. Let us make FOLIO and the work it enables within our institutions, a force of model accountability and responsible development within this burgeoning AI ecosystem.
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Original quote from 1971 to Xerox researches, expressed in this video The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late? ↩
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No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla ↩
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We Need Actually Open AI Now More than Ever (Or: Why Leopold Aschenbrenner is Dangerously Wrong) ↩