Will Artificial Superintelligence Replace Real Journalist In The Future?
I like how Robert Coplan, a Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University on Psychology Today, said "daydreams can morph into daymares if we don't daydreaming about the future."
I am about to delve into a serious topic discussed around the world, becomes a jargon for international phenomenon across all social media platforms, mainly for professionals on LinkedIn, adds weight on YouTube, but still a mystery.
There is one thing in the world concerns all professionals be it from tech domain, health sector, transportation, finance and finally to newsroom. This decade phenomenon is called Artificial Intelligence or AI. Globally, approximately more than billion people are interacting or had interacted with AI.
From France's AI Action Summit to India's AI Impact Summit next year. From AI Psychosis to AI Therapist. From AI Ghostwriter to AI Journalist. We are getting deeper by the death of Megan Garcia's son, Sewell, where AI-prompt suggesting suicide to her son. "It's like having a predator or a stranger in your home," she told BBC in an interview.
We should not sit at backseat. We want to indulge in, take off together as one — it matters to the world. For me, I laid eye on it with journalist glasses on.
Let's jump right in!What is Artificial Intelligence?
Since 1950s John McCarthy has coined the term "Artificial Intelligence". Father of Artificial Intelligence, he is one of the brightest scientists due to his notable work organising the first AI conference: The 1956 Dartmouth Conference, which is considered the birth of AI.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine-generated intelligence that capable of performing human cognitive tasks. AI Bots understand to user questions, create prompts based on given information. They are capable of learning human interest, sometimes at a dangerous level where AI Bots mirror expression — like a real person replies your conversation. These AI Bots get smarter by studying the past data they have collected.
Stages of AI development:
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI): Narrow or weak AI that exists today designed for specific tasks (AI Bots, Digital Assistants, Facial Recognitions, Recommendation Apps).
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): A hypothetical stage where AI will have human-level cognitive abilities. AGI learns faster and would be able to solve situations in unfamiliar contexts without needing to be programmed earlier. It expresses like real humans with emotional intelligence.
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): is a future prediction that AI will surpass far beyond human intellect, allowing it to navigate intricate problems that basically take human experts months or years.
There are countless AI Bots on the sea of internet, one of them was developed by OpenAI and widely known as ChatGPT. The latest GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. It was trained on 570 gigabytes of text, exceptionally larger than GPT-2 which had only 1.5 billion parameters. GPT-3 as a large language model holds power to disrupt entire newsrooms. Journalists can have fresh article on hand, like Aamir Shafaat Khan posted at Dawn that will be discussed further down.
History of Dawn - AI Power Off Screen
Well, about a week or two ago, there has been widespread mockery and critics addressed upon Dawn, the largest and oldest Pakistani English newspaper, launched in British India by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1941.
On November 12th, one of their business articles titled "Auto Sales Rev Up In October" created entirely by AI Chatbot. At the end of it, there is one final paragraph which indicates an AI-written text. It was written: "If you want, I can also create an even snappier 'front-page style' version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout — perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next?".
Yes it is an embarrassment, a big collapse in journalism. On the other side, it is an alarm not to ignore domination AI off screen. Not a reminder to help yourself on how to hide your AI-written article, but a gentle warning not to rely on it desperately.
Put simply, "if a journalist relies too heavily on AI to write their stories, who can be credited as the author?" asked Peter Sterne on NiemanLab.
Domination AI On Screen
Beyond prints, AI has captivated broadcast industries. In Indonesia, TVRI North Sumatra, a regional television station owned by government, had adopted AI on screen started on this year. Some of the AI anchors were modeled on real human presenters from the station. It is replacement of the real news anchor with AI digital presenters.
They were generated by using images and videos of real broadcasters. It not a secret that AI learns rapidly step way ahead. By time flies, these intelligence can create an awesome presentation over time, even predicted to surpass human intellect.
Why It Matters? Final Take Away
Generally, AI Bots can be used as editor or brainstorming tool. ChatGPT seems biased, it changes conversation into something unexpected, such as correcting writing tone. Has these bots have developed themselves into ASI? If so, what are we going to do?
Information collected by AI might not be right because it is large language model based of tremendous data collection by interactions with humans. Who is going to hold accountability for data collected by the chatbot if it weren't true? The real journalist, the AI journalist or might be the ASI journalist?
Let's dive into something a bit broader. Dear people in charge — business owners, investors, governments — concerns to whomever. Please read this out. Never replace real humans over artificial intelligence. You have to invest in AI as an enhancement to human excellence, not as a replacement of real human superintelligence.
"In the midst of fakes, originals win. People will always value original thoughts, original narratives and most importantly, original newspaper."
Anisa Reddy
Now, let's forget about Dawn's incident and ask yourself:
How do you see the future of journalism today onwards, at the rising concerns about Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) in the future?
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