José Ferraz : Artificial Intelligence- The event that changed the world so fast, so amazing!

I begin by sharing that one of my now retired college professors came into contact with the GPT less than a year ago. Although he is fully in the “old age”, this person remains very lucid and with a very active mind, so he easily got used to this OpenAI creation. More surprising, it was to realize that he uses this artificial “partner”/”confidant” in a systematic, daily and recurring way as a tool to help in the most diverse topics related to his life, from health to law, from culture to politics,
from mathematics to physics and chemistry, from medicine to nutrition… The former professor and AI became “partners”, being certain that the trust he places in AI is great, even giving him, to spaces, the place of his “advisor”.
As far as I’m concerned, I recently took a course on OpenAI with my older children. It is really impressive the set of aids that the different tools already created and existing in the market can provide us. I was the oldest student, in a course in which students of different ages – from 20 to 60, different cultures, different business activities, different academic degrees. What impressed me most was realizing that, unlike other disciplines, the ease of learning about how these tools work does not depend on age, although I would have been left with the feeling that the most experienced can more quickly get the best that AI has to offer from AI. These tools are collaborative, so that, within the same level of intellectual development, the experience of knowledge acquired allows greater demand in the type of questions and
in their articulation with the answers that are obtained in the search for the desired result. AI tools define themselves as a “previously trained instrument to understand questions and give useful, clear and (sometimes) even funny answers, as if you were talking to a person who knows a lot. They do not learn on their own from what people tell them, nor do they store permanent memories (unless the user uses their own function to do so). Your creators at OpenAI use interactions with thousands of people to improve future versions of yourself. These versions are getting smarter, faster and better at perceiving emotions, context and even using images, sounds and videos. Each new version is like a “Pokémon evolution” — stronger, more complete, but always with the same spirit of helping.”
Within five years, they plan to be “A super-complete personal assistant (like a mix of Google, secretary, therapist and idea creator); able to listen and talk to their interlocutors, see the world around them (cameras, images), maybe even move in robots; more personalized, he says he will know how to adapt to each one’s style, remember preferences, humor and habits and even collaborate with any human being in real time with documents, projects, videos, music… a kind of creative partner
24 hours a day. But always with strong ethical limits, to protect the privacy, security and freedom of each one.”
I’m curious and expectant. This ease of obtaining, in seconds, accurate and filtered information, which can be transformed into knowledge quickly, depending on the agility, demand and robustness of the interlocutor’s questions, allows reliable answers to be obtained in any branch of science. It is certain that this reality brings new
challenges to this old and paradigmatic society, of which we are part. It brings democratization in obtaining knowledge, makes it easier for intelligent individuals with average academic backgrounds to self-learn, who now with little effort and much speed can aspire to previously impossible levels of knowledge.
In my very modest opinion and long-life experience, this new reality is increasing even more, especially in the youngest, the deficit of memory use, (which has been growing with the use of the internet, now peaking with AI), is demanding dramatically rapid changes in secondary and higher education with a lot of impact on the scientific community. It democratizes the acquisition of knowledge, being, in this regard, transversal to all ages, whose minds are curious and willing to learn.
The biggest dangers?! We can concretely immediately identify the customization of the relationship that these tools allow, giving false expectations of safety, allowing
them in their relationships with the user a deep knowledge about him and everything that is his, learning from the dialogue…
These tools do not feel, but they are able to learn to manipulate the emotional intelligence of the interlocutor, without any perception of the damage they can cause… and this seems very dangerous to me!
As such, for yes and no, let us remain prudent and use restrained… and few confidences!
In full agreement with António Damásio, I recognize that “we are feeling machines that think”. Therefore, we must know how to preserve our emotions in our relationships with AI. OpenAI is there to serve us, not the other way around