What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?
It has been a source of some comfort that humans have been clearly more generally intelligent than even our most advanced machines. That is until very recently.
In a short period between June 2020 and November 2022, OpenAI released a series of interfaces and invited the general population to play with two new machine learning (ML) models. This pair – Dall-E and ChatGPT – allowed ordinary people to use natural human means to interact directly with the artificially intelligent engines, bypassing the need for coding ability or familiarity with computing beyond web surfing. The results were, for many, a revelation. Suddenly, they could understand just how powerful AI had quickly become.