Hi ,
In the Iron Man movies, the Iron
Man suit wasn't a robot. Rather, it was technology that dramatically increased the ability of its creator, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), to do heroic things.
But without Tony Stark inside the suit, Iron Man would never have existed - a realisation Stark himself comes to at the end of Iron Man
3:
"You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, but one thing you can't take away - I am Iron Man."
AI-based technologies, such as ChatGPT, have the capacity to make us all better at doing the things we do. But there is nothing innately super about these technologies.
They are nothing more than thousands of lines of computer code, on a server somewhere
far away.
The real superpowers come when humans leverage these technologies to amplify their own innate abilities.
In past posts, I've written that you can't compete with robots because the robots will always win - and that remains true for a human acting alone.
Tony Stark, similarly, could never have defeated many of the villains he went up against without his Iron Man suit.
Yet AI-based technologies mean we no longer need to act alone.
AI-based tools bring with them the
possibility of making us all superheroes - but only if we want them to.
By choosing to use AI-based technologies to enhance our abilities, instead of replacing them, it is possible to win against robots.
We can ALL be Iron Man.
Talk again,
Dr Genevieve Hayes.
p.s. This post was inspired by a conversation I recently had with Ethan Garofolo on Value Driven Data Science. You can listen to the entire conversation HERE.
