2024 AAALGO AI Bootcamp

Closing Remarks

Wei Dong

wdong@aaalgo.com

  • What are we?
  • Where are we from?
  • Where are we going?
  • What shall we do?

Intelligence is a language phenomemon

Language has certain properties of a living organism.

  • Evolution tree of languages.
  • Remeber how we learned new skills?
  • (How our brains got inoculated an alien parasitic language?)

Language is an emergent phenomenon.

  • We didn't create ourselves.
  • In some sense, we didn't create the AI either.
  • 1940s-: first computers
  • 1950s-: rise of the silicon industry
  • ---- Basic Principles of Today's AI Invented ----
  • 1980s-: rise of the software industry
  • 2000s-: rise of the Internet
  • 2010s-: rise of the social networks
  • 2020s-: AI awakens

Where we are now?

  • AI approaching/exceeding human intelligence.
  • Training data exhausted.

Where we are heading?

  • AI will evolve with the assistance of humans.

Where we are heading?

  • AI will evolve with the assistance of humans.
  • Language evolution will accelearte with the joint efforts of AI and Human.

Imagine the layers of concepts layed on top of one another. From the
bare concep of "room" from 10,000s of years ago to the latest ideas like
"TV".

Possible direction:

Training AI to invent new useful concepts with evolution algorithms.

What shall we do?

  • Short term: Be a medium between AI and your industry.
  • Mid term: Learn to program the AI.
  • Long term: Prepare to retire.

(Short Term) Our ground is our own domain.

(Mid Term) New paraidgm of programming.

We are now in a world of wizardry. Learn your spells.

(Long Term) We need to work on the retirement plan.

The importance of policy making.

Thank you for your attention!