IBM defines artificial intelligence as a field that combines computer science and robust datasets to enable problem-solving. A program called Deep Blue, running on an IBM supercomputer defeated the reigning world chess champion in the 1990's.
You can go back centuries to find warnings about our creations turning against us, but IBM rightly began with Alan Turing's seminal work "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in 1950.
Text to speech has been with us for decades now, but AI can emulate any voice. Imagine the possibilities for ebooks, but the legal issues with the heirs of those actors would be the real concern.
A Long Island fisherman fell off the back of his boat while the rest of his crew was asleep. The Coast Guard searched for him using human eyes behind binoculars.
Almin Surani, a Global Nonprofit Digital Transformation Lead at Avanade an Accenture & Microsoft Company, told me about an elderly woman who was scammed by an artificial intelligence machine.
Surani is an IT expert who has worked with nonprofit enterprises for decades. He spotted the convergence of Artificial Intelligence and nonprofit enterprises years ago.
We talked about some of the specific things that AI could do for a nonprofit, like tailoring communications to individual donors.
I mentioned that AI was shaping up as a problem in education, and Surani told me that there is already a program on the market that sniffs out AI work in student writing.
Surani said that ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with technology and can improve communications with donors in nonprofit organizations by being on the job 24 hours a day.
Avanade is developing a new suite of software in partnership with Microsoft to serve the nonprofit community, and Lisa Stiffler wrote about how nonprofits are using AI and ChatGPT.
Manuel Gomez cautions against using artificial intelligence to cut costs by replacing people with machines. If handled correctly, AI improvements can follow past technological breakthroughs by freeing up staff to do more effective work while taking over routine tasks.
AI-powered chatbots, predictive analytics and fundraising platforms can be used to help nonprofits achieve their goals.
Nick Tanzi wrote in the Digital Librarian that AI would most likely be appearing in libraries by way of vendors such as databases, streaming services and ILS providers.
I copied the article you are now reading and pasted it into a free AI writing program to see the results.