If a person stops learning today, then within three months, the person may become outdated. And no learning for a whole year could mean that an individual may become obsolete within a year. It is like gravity, inevitably dragging everyone down.
The question is: Can we reverse gravity? The obvious answer is that this is currently beyond our capabilities. But can we reverse the impact of forces like gravity that are pulling us down? That may be feasible through new developments in technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has the potential to uplift not just individuals but society and humanity as a whole.
Exploring the AI odyssey was Anders Hasle, CEO and Co-Founder of Lion Brain, as he delivered a seminar on “Your Future Co-Pilot: How AI will Navigate Your Education and Life Journey.” The seminar was held on February 19, 2024 at the Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation (CSII).
Welcoming Anders Hasle, CSII Executive Director Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai recalled how the launch of Generative AI had taken place as a turning point, particularly for educators. “We have made acquiring AI literacy compulsory for our students, and we have already established an AI lab at our school,” Professor Worsak said. “Anders and his team of experts are engaging with the AI lab, ensuring that our school and our students have in-house expertise available to them,” he said.
Foreshadowing emerging events, Anders Hasle asked: ‘If AI is smarter than us, faster than us, and cheaper than us, then what is the purpose of our existence?’ adding that we will simply adjust to the emerging situation. For now, AI can benefit CSII students by co-piloting their educational journey with a digital and a multiverse twin. It can also help them become entrepreneurs, where there is a threat that businesses will become obsolete even before they begin.
“Earlier, we saw one-and-a-half Large Language Models (LLM) emerge every 24 hours, and today, we have more than one model emerging every minute,” Anders Hasle remarked. A year ago, AI-generated videos were clumsy, but now they have reached amazing realism. Elaborating on the personalized AI framework called FRA.IA[1] , Anders spoke about how the digital twin solution, which can swap a real-life persona with body language, avatar, and voice features, can benefit health science. “FRA.IA can be your future co-pilot and knowledge hub, a self-improving system,” he added.
Inviting the audience to join the AI Lab at CSII, Anders highlighted the four-dimensional focus of the lab, which includes Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and memory technologies, training and utilization, transcription services, and more. The focus on RAG is meant to increase the reliability and accuracy of generative AI models.
The seminar began with the audience being asked whether they consider AI to be beneficial or detrimental, and it concluded with the same question. Not surprisingly, the percentage of those who thought AI was detrimental had declined by the end of the seminar.
