The Democratization of AI: A Good or Bad Thing?

Letting Pandora out the box?

For decades, AI (Artificial Intelligence) was a cute little subject in computer science, and where researchers gathered together in mainly closed conferences and talked about making things a little bit. It was typically a small community that did not extend too much into our normal lives. While fuzzy logic made its way into our washing machines, there was little in the way of a large-scale impact on our working lives.

But all that will change, and the world’s most advanced AI models will potentially be in the hands of virtually every person on the planet. Whether you’re an engineer, a manager, an accountant, or an innovator, AI is now in your hands. Forget the day of spreadsheets and expert systems, this is could be the powerful business tool we have ever created, but also the tool that will cause so much disruption in our lives.

With OpenAI, Microsoft and Google will have their systems restricted through moral and ethical constraints. Llama-3 (Large Language Model Meta AI) will put power AI in the hands of every citizen on the planet — and those citizens might not have the same moral and ethical constraints as you and I: