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“While all of us carry supercomputers in our pockets and nearly every major company has heralded artificial intelligence as the next big thing, practical applications for AI still seem frustratingly just out of reach.” This excerpt from an article published on Wired succinctly captures the paradoxically palpable-yet-elusive nature of AI.

Oh, the times we live in. Every Barry, Dick, and Harry brandishes around the term ‘artificial intelligence’ like it’s hard to buy milk without deploying neural networks. Yet, it seems like a cruel game of peekaboo where the AI toddler is gleefully hiding, barely revealing itself.

The ‘Wired AI Power Summit’, the congregation of the mighty wielders of AI, was nothing short of a spectacle. The grandeur of tech mavens parading their latest AI endeavors was truly a sight to behold. However, amidst all that glitz and glam, don’t we all fail to ask one blindingly obvious question – where’s the practical application?

Isn’t it amusing how the ‘next big thing’ in the tech world resembles Schroedinger’s cat, both powerfully transformative and practically elusive. Companies walk this tightrope, obsessing over AI’s future influence while wrangling with its current limitations.

During the summit, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, enlightened the audience with his two cents. He explained the limitations of AI tools available today. It seems like they’ve become the “Overgrown Tamagotchis,” requiring comprehensive human aid. AI’s potential, collectively eyed by the technology world, is promising indeed. Yet, we’re still tasked with babysitting our omnipotent AI creations, keeping them from veering off track.

Next, we dived deep into the relatively lesser-known but critical world of AI and ethics. Timnit Gebru, AI ethics researcher, took us through her perspective. She posed a poignant question – ‘do the grave issues of fairness in AI hint at an underlying socio-economic crisis?’ Well, anyone paying attention to AI-related news will testify to the notorious bias in AI systems. As it turns out, AI is surprisingly similar to us, flawed beings, reflecting systemic biases present in our society.

The summit was also a reminder of how undeniably intertwined AI and technology have become. A world without AI seems as likely as a phone without a camera. This integration, for all its convenience and efficiency, brings forth vulnerabilities, rubs up against ethical dilemmas, and challenges existing regulations.

To sum it all up, it is safe to say that the AI journey has been more of a rollercoaster ride than a pleasant walk in the park. The summit painted a very clear picture: while we’re frothing at the mouth over what the future of AI holds – a world of driverless cars and AI-powered humanoid robots, maybe – we need to focus on the now, more so on AI’s immediate practical implementation.

The ‘Wired AI Power Summit’, however, did leave its audience with an invaluable token – Hope. The hope for a more functional AI in our everyday lives and a fairer AI society. Now, if only we could develop an AI to find that lost AI practicality.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/wired-ai-power-summit/