Articles tagged as "AI"

We consume and generate, a lot of information per day. With more people using the internet and generating data around the world, there will be even more communication: more emails sent, more articles written, and more data to store and recall. During the period 2011 through 2021, the percentage of individuals worldwide using the internet almost doubled, from 31.2% to 59.6% [1]. People are joining the interconnected infrastructure of the modern web at a blistering pace, and yet there are still billions more that remain unconnected. When they too join the global network, we can expect even more ideas to join the chorus.

Since Large Language Models (LLM’s) were introduced in November 2022, there has been a near constant buzz about their potential, limitations, and real-world consequences. When ChatGPT 3.0 was first released, I remember bringing my laptop around to colleagues in my master’s program, explaining how this was the tip of the iceberg of something new. While our cohort was just about to graduate, and therefore unlikely to have our trajectories altered too heavily by this new gravitational pull, the year after us could use this new tool to radically change how they went about learning the basics of concepts in statistics and epidemiology.

I want you to imagine, just for a second, that I had written a breathtaking piece about rabbits. Right here in this very blog post were the most exceptional rabbit facts you had ever seen. They were novel. They were insightful. They were downright inspired. Being the normal internet citizen you are, you decided to share the article with your rabbit-loving friends. “Here!” you say into your legions of followers, “feast your eyes on this!”

I’m too young to remember a time where “Google” wasn’t a verb. With the ability to search the internet, we have changed the world from one in which information was static, locked up in libraries across geographies, to a single, simple, snappy interface where we can ask the world our questions. “What temperature should I set the over to for pizza?” or “When is the next Toronto Maple Leafs game?” or, most dramatic, “What is the meaning of life?”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves in various industries, including marketing, healthcare, and education. But one aspect of AI that has been gaining significant attention is its ability to generate written content. With the help of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms, AI can create new written content faster and more efficiently than humans. While this may seem like a boon for businesses and content creators, it is also likely to make the internet a noisier place.