Predicting the future of AI
AA: Overall, what are your predictions for the future of AI? I’d love to know what you are positive about and what you are a bit nervous about.
JW: I’m very excited right now about collaborative intelligence – how can we take the best of AI and the best of human intelligence and combine them to get the best out of both worlds? We are about to launch a $12 million initiative called the Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform at the CSIRO, which is all about that.
Just to give you a really simple example of this, there’s a lot of excitement right now about this Dall-E system, which is an AI-generated art system. You can type in a query, such as, “I want to see a frog riding a horse in the Outback,” and it’ll produce an image for you. It’s fantastic. It’s a wonderful system. There are other similar systems, such as Craiyon, and there was recently a story where Cosmopolitan magazine...