Preparing for a future of generative AI

Generative AI Concepts

Daniel Tedesco

Data Lead, Google

Do more with less

Individuals become teams
Small teams create big things
Bureaucracies become more streamlined

The AI divide

Access: availability, cost
Literacy: mindset, capability

Comparison of broadband affordability across countries grouped by income. A high level of disparity in affordability exists in low-income countries and decreases progressively for lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and high-income countries.

¹ International Telecommunications Union, 2023

Education and jobs

Replacement, augmentation, and co-creation, too
Reshape around generative AI
- In education: access to AI, move away from memorization
- In the workplace: support from AI partner
Difficult transition

News headlines and charts proclaiming how AI will replace a variety of jobs

¹ Various headlines from BBC, The Economist, Forbes, Business Insider, and Gitnux

Media and entertainment

Creative explosion
Personalized media
Requires new forms of trust

Which is real and which is AI-generated?

Comparison of Midjourney AI-generated image with real image.

¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/12uij2l/one_is_a_real_photo_and_one_is_ai_generated_can/

Science and technological progress

Faster discoveries
Faster technology transfer
Human direction still needed

"What took us months and years to do, AlphaFold was able to do in a weekend." Professor John McGeehan Professor of Structural Biology and director for the centre for enzyme innovation (CEI) at the University of Portsmouth

¹ Deepmind website, https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/alphafold

Values: do they think and feel like us?

A robot takes an input of Chinese characters and outputs Chinese characters. However, inside the box, it muses, "I don't really understand Chinese, but this looks like what I saw during training..."

Let's practice!

Generative AI Concepts