Last week, Amazon announced its intention to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, a start-up company specialized in artificial intelligence. Amazon’s announcement is a commitment from it to catch up with major companies in the artificial intelligence race, which it seems to have lagged behind, although Amazon’s investment is large, but It pales when measured by Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in the open AI company. Just as scientists expressed their concern about a future with superhuman artificial intelligence for which we are not ready, companies expressed their concern and enthusiasm at the same time by pouring billions of dollars into pushing the technology deep into the future.
What is happening today is reminiscent of previous experiments in which enthusiasm for artificial intelligence rose and resulted in large investments at the time, but they did not produce the expected results. The stage that artificial intelligence is going through today is not the first. Enthusiasm rose in the 1980s, and the American government alone spent approximately Today’s numbers ($6 billion at current prices). What was spent at that time was certainly not all in vain. Rather, the spending was a reflection of Hamas not standing on solid ground, which caused a backlash because hopes were not translated into reality.
Perhaps the enthusiasm that accompanies artificial intelligence is unparalleled. The imagination has been drawing a future picture of a world in which the machine rules until the servant becomes the servant. The world drawn by science fiction novels has become so influential that it determines the general direction of technology, controlling its narrative. The relationship between literature and technology is evident in the example of artificial intelligence. So that literature draws the outlines and technology completes the rest. Not only that, but literature ignites the imagination until the boundaries between the possible and the impossible disappear, or at least what is thought to be so.
Despite all the frustrations that accompany the process of technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular, the general indicator of achievements is on the rise. The frustrations that technology has experienced are not necessarily its fault, but are due to the resources that were not available at the time. The data that is available to major companies today because of the Internet, was not It was not available to others in the 1980s, for example, and no real progress could be made without it. Advances in the manufacture of central processors in terms of specifications and cost, and in recent years in particular, have contributed to the efficiency of processing huge data and enabled the application of many algorithms that had not been applied before.
Artificial intelligence is not isolated from its surroundings, whether technical or non-technical. Artificial intelligence always seems to be at the forefront, like all the software we use today, but the matter is more complex than that. Behind every program is a complex network of technologies and experts who work around the clock to keep the software performing its role, and with all the progress that artificial intelligence has made, it is what… It still needs advanced infrastructure to keep pace with it.
