Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
Faced with these two letters: AI, we feel like Sarah Connor, dressed in a tank top, fighting for the preservation of humanity. And I don't know what makes me more anxious, being afraid of Skynet or that the flabby skin on my arms will give away my age and so the humans will choose me as a tribute to appease the AI beasts.
Are we getting attached to machines and vice versa? At least with D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform) we seem to.
In 1984, the population is closely monitored so that the single party in government controls the narrative through the Ministry of Truth.
No matter how dystopian they present the technological future, with scarce natural resources and the survival of the fittest, no story says that the data centers, the ones that make AI work, are the ones that killed the water, and that if there is no more water, then there are no more intelligent machines.
Get out your calculator or paper and pencil, let's see how much water you spent with your Studio Ghibli images: multiply by 4 the number of images requested and you will get the liters you consumed. In 5 days, the planet contributed 216 million liters of water for us to have our Studio Ghibli images. Well, the planet did not provide the water, because water is extraterrestrial, it was the universe that provided it. What if the water was the extraterrestrial that we are waiting for to contact us?
Anyway, there are from AIs to AIs, the difference lies in the quality of their components: ordered data, processing in super-powerful machines and algorithms. As practice makes perfect, to improve data management AI needs practice (or training). Where, how, when and by whom AI is trained is an answer so obvious that it is hiding in plain sight. Every person who makes a request, uploads an image, chats with an AI, or approves/disapproves an answer, is training. Open source or free access to the use of AI is a mirage. They use you to improve a software that gives value to that technology company.
On top of that, companies that offer a paid service for AI use are asking you for money to have continuous and unrestricted access for you to train their platform.
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