[Part 1] AI and Humans: The Boundary Between Illusion and Reality
[Part 2] AI and Humans: Understanding AI Correctly
[Part 3] AI and Humans: Changes and Control in the AI Era
[Part 4] AI and Humans: Creativity and Senses: The Combination of the Five Senses Gifted by the Divine
[Part 5] AI and Humans: The Realm of AI and Humans — Unapproachable in the Future
[Part 6] AI and Humans: New Developments in AI Commands and Human Understanding
By Im Byoung-min, Columnist (imubiquitius@gmail.com)
The emergence of AI is truly shocking for humans. The impact of AI will vary from person to person, but can be broadly divided into the following: Jobs, changes, and economic impacts will be significant. Job changes include repetitive and standardized tasks (e.g. call centers, translation, manufacturing, accounting, etc.) partially moving to AI, and even creative and analytical jobs such as lawyers, doctors, reporters, and designers are partially moving to AI automation. Inevitably, economic polarization is rapidly widening the gap between people and companies that can utilize AI and those that cannot, and the speed and changes of AI Agents are rapidly developing. Recently, when you give an Agent a command, it comes to my PC, implements PowerPoint with the necessary Word or Excel, and passes the content to a Sub-Agent, and the Sub-Agents cooperate to create the results requested by the human command.
We humans can no longer live without AI. Why did we create AI? The motivation for creating AI, its development, and the future In order to live with AI, it is essential to manage AI that helps humans think. Through this column, you will be able to accurately understand AI and learn how to manage it. Human history has been about creating and using tools that can replace arms and legs since birth. Today, humans have created robot arms and excavators to replace arms, cars and airplanes to replace legs, and contact lenses and electronic telescopes to help the eyes. Then, AI is something that was created to replace the human brain.
Then, let's look at the process of AI's emergence, which can replace the human brain. The first hardware that humans created to use their brains to calculate was the abacus, and the software that memorized the calculated contents in the brain or wrote them down by hand was used by the ancient Mesopotamians around 3,000 BC. Then, in 1642, the French mathematician Pascal invented a manual calculator using gears. This was the world's first calculator, the Pascal calculator, and later in the late 17th century, a calculator with programming functions and memory was developed using binary 1 and 0, and in 1945, von Neumann created the world's first computer with a program-built method that stores both commands and data in the memory device. At that time, the size of one unit was about 162 square meters, and the performance of the current smartphone has developed to have a memory storage capacity of about 3,000 times more than that of a gigabyte and a processing speed of about hundreds of billions of times more, and it is possible because of the CPU (Central Processing Unit) and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), and it has developed to be able to replace the human brain. The history of artificial intelligence developed into a programmable digital computer based on logic and mathematical reasoning with the invention of the computer in 1940, and the method of utilizing neural networks for machine learning, memory, perception, and symbol processing by Geoffrey Hinton is what can replace the human brain, and Chat GPT or Gemini or Copilot has emerged today.
Recently, the type of AI that has grown beyond what can replace the human brain is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is a general-purpose artificial intelligence that learns and understands various problems like humans and is capable of transfer learning, and is designed to replicate or replace the entire functions of the human brain, and is growing to have sensory processing (visual, auditory, etc.), logical thinking, automatic learning updates, emotional understanding, and empathy. In addition, Cognitive Architecture AI is a cognitive architecture-based AI that imitates the cognitive structure of the human brain to imitate thinking, memory, and judgment, and models the functional modules of the brain. The research based on brain structure is embedded in the form of an edge and is developing into sovereign AI required for each industry. Recently, in business use, Agent AI, Embodied AI, decision-centered intelligence, is not a simple input-output system according to human commands, but an AI Agent that enters the commander's computer on its own and can make intentions, judgments, and pursue goals, and actively exchanges problems with Sub-Agent AI to solve them, and presents the results to the commander.
However, the shock received by humans should be evaluated objectively and coolly from a human-centered perspective without exaggeration. The development of AI shows many expectations and possibilities, but there are illusions and hype. This illusion is what is dangerous in using AI. We should not have the illusion that AI thinks like humans, and in reality, current AI is not a being that understands or has consciousness like humans. For example, Chat GPT or Gemini or Copilot, which we use every day, is just a pattern recognition system that continues speech according to the context and probability of the language model, and cannot have real thoughts or intentions. Due to the exaggeration that AI will solve all problems, we should not believe that in reality, AI works well only when there is sufficient data and the problem structure is clear, and that it makes accurate judgments in medical diagnosis, legal advice, education, etc. AI does not understand ethical and emotional judgments.
We should not have the illusion that AI is creative. Humans should not dance with this illusion, and in reality, music, pictures, and texts created by AI are not true creativity, but rather a combination of existing data. You can refer to the examples provided by AI, but it cannot deeply represent or express human life or emotions. When AI produces results, it is humans who coolly evaluate whether the results are right or wrong. If so, in the AI era, human learning must at least improve literacy, math skills, comprehension, and creativity by several levels. This is the path for humans to leap forward to manage Chat GPT or Gemini or Copilot and manage the future of AI. We need to delve deeper into the principles of math, English, literature, and language studies that we have done so far, and we will need deeper knowledge with a solid foundation. This is because we need to judge whether the results provided by Chat GPT or Gemini or Copilot are right or wrong. Simply put, managers and coaches need to know more and more deeply than players to control and manage players. In order to win the World Cup trophy, you need the most capable managers and coaches, and players who have received strategic training to win.
You can find the Korean version of this article here.
