What is AI? What is its use and can it be dangerous?

The term “Artificial Intelligence” emerged in 1955. It was coined by John McCarthy (Dortmund College), Marvin Minski (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), and Claud Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories) in their “Artificial Research involving ten people.”
Artificial Intelligence as a separate academic discipline emerged even earlier, during WW2. AI developments were closely linked to computing technology. Coomputers started doing more complicated tasks, which could have been done only by humans previously.
In 2010 this discipline experienced a new boom thanks to a significant improvement in computer technologies and accessibility to large volumes of data.
The AI discipline is a number of sciences, theories and methods and includes applied sciences in:

• Mathematical logic;
• Statistics;
• Probability theory;
• Computational neurobiology;
• IT.

The purpose of AI is to imitate human cognitive ability.

Programs for AI content writing, such as ChatGPT, Writesonic, and Rytr, can generate different types of content. They can write:

• Essays or similar student work;
• An ad message;
• A post for a blog or social media;
• A heading;
• Email;
• Descriptions and reviews of products and services;
• Feedback;
• Job vacancies;
• Lists and checklists;
• Questions and tasks for tests, quizzes, and trivia games.

AI can also converse with a human being, write code and check one for errors, solve math problems, and brainteasers. Apart from that, you get a neural network, which draws pictures from scratch and does voiceovers for videos.

Using AI in work can be helpful and helps to save time. AI can:

• Suggest ideas and help brainstorm;
• Suggest SEO headings;
• Suggest alternatively-worded phrases;
• Write out the structure or draft of a post or article;
• Give you some prominent points of an essay or introductory paragraph;
• Advise you on how to expand on your ideas;
• Point out how you can summarize a large text;
• Write a content plan — ideas for posts and videos;
• Help overcome your fear of a blank page or the author’s block.

Risks that are involved in mindlessly using AI:

• Not all texts are unique. Neural networks and AI learn from fragments of open sources. For example, if you ask ChatGPT a subject-specific question, it can use copied text fragments in its answer. Posting is direct plagiarism.
• Only some of the information is correct. There is a risk of disinformation. You need to check every fact. A neural network can write convincingly about a subject that doesn’t exist.
• The texts look robotized. You could find incorrect phrases or syntax in AI content, which a real person would never do. Such texts are difficult and unpleasant to read.
• Risk of sanctions from search engines. Google stated that it has algorithms that are learning to detect AI content and differentiate it from texts written by human beings. Websites with AI content are not at the forefront of search results, so clients do not see them, and the company loses revenue.

If you post AI content without editing and making changes, it could contain plagiarism. If the author used AI as an assistant to create a template, find ideas, formulate phrases, and diligently go through the text — that’s not plagiarism. This is why it is always important to check your text if the author used AI.
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