Beyond GPT – Knowledge Advantage Machines

The term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined by John McCarthy in 1956 to attract more attention to the planned Computer Science Conference at Dartmouth. Ever since, the society expected someday machines will do the manual labor and thinking for us and we will live in a society of leisure surrounded by unlimited number of “Machine-Servants.” Even after 68 years, we have not realized that Utopian Society. We may be closer than ever, but we are not there, and may never be. If we examine the history of science and technology, we will realize mere invention of a technology will not automatically improve the society. Machines that can do what we do must be invented before the promise of the inventions could be fully realized. Invention of steam engine did not automatically benefit farmers until machines like tractor and harvester were developed. Invention of electricity didn’t automatically impact society until the lightbulb, motors, etc. were developed. Recent developments in Generative AI and the possibility of developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has led to wild speculations on the future of society. In this talk I will discuss the concept of Knowledge Advantage and how it could be exploited by Knowledge Workers using Personal Knowledge Advantage Machines that are within reach. Speaker(s): Ramana Reddy, Room: G102, Bldg: Engineering Sciences Building, 1306 Evansdale Drive, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26506, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410295