Uses and abuses of machine learning
Most people have heard of Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that in 1997 was the first to win a game against a world champion. Another famous computer, Watson, defeated two human opponents on the television trivia game show Jeopardy in 2011. Based on these stunning accomplishments, some have speculated that computer intelligence will replace workers in information technology occupations, just as automobiles replaced horses and machines replaced workers in fields and assembly lines. Recently, these fears have become more pronounced as artificial intelligence-based algorithms, such as GPT-3 and DALL·E 2 from the OpenAI research group (https://openai.com/), have reached impressive milestones and are proving that computers are capable of writing text and creating artwork that is virtually indistinguishable from that produced by humans. Ultimately, this may lead to massive shifts in occupations like marketing, customer support, illustration...