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Two precipitously dissimilar vision of AI were platformed on stage at the Mobile World Congress swop show on Monday .
The true believer ’s display case for the engineering ’s voltage — to unify with and transform human life for the better — was offer up by futurist and uniqueness priest Ray Kurzweil , who also has a research role at Google .
Beaming in via videoconference in a snowy shirt paired with vividly paint couplet , Kurzweil suggested AI will supercharge humanity — delivery , if not quite immortality , a major extension in human beings ’s longevity and capability as a result of AI - fuelled advances in sphere like healthcare .
AI is , he evoke , already power huge addition for those paying attention — and is go to transmute “ everything all at once ” , raining benefits down on world across unnumerable other domains , such as unlocking the plentiful power of solar vitality .
Thanks to “ AI - optimised designs ” and new part , renewable energy engineering is on trail to “ dominate within a ten ” , he foretell .
The AI - neighboring doomsaying arrived in someone , and with plainer speech : source , academic and tech investor Scott Galloway used his on - stage fireside chat to warn that rage - fuelling algorithm are destroying an entire genesis of ( mostly ) young homo .
allow to run by their negligent possessor , the algorithms figure out “ that the ultimate branding tool is madness ” , he argued — painting a picture of advertising - funded , AI - fuel platforms profit from a polarised state where neighbors in the U.S. are progressively not talk to each other .
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“ We ’ve never been unassailable … and yet we hate each other , ” he said , crediting AI - drive information - categorisation with amping up closing off and anti - societal attitudes , especially among untried men , as well as contribute to a internal loneliness crisis .
give way further , Galloway railed against a billionaire class of tech CEOs for neglect to call out popular misuse by the current U.S. authorities — where X owner Elon Musk is preside over a Department of Government Efficiency that ’s busy lash Union programme while the Trump judicature restfully tug tax cuts that he pronounce will only do good the moneyed in society , include himself .
“ This domino of cowardliness among super affluent — it ’s just so disappointing and un - American , ” rail Galloway , throw away in several plain insult ( “ f * * * you ! ” ) directed at tech CEOs including OpenAI ’s Sam Altman , Amazon beginner Jeff Bezos and Apple ’s Tim Cook for bending the knee to Trump rather than verbalize up in defence of the popular system of rules that enabled them to ramp up their own tech conglomerate .
