[tomjen3]

In 5 years:

An AI can go through all the breaking footage posted on social media. An AI can join a phone call with 400 individuals and retain complete notes on everything that is happening. An AI can go through every single expense report, every month for a decade to find the one thing that explodes into a story.

An AI journalist won't be a 1:1 copy of the human, but it can definitely do actual reporting.

[imiric]

How useful will that AI be if most breaking footage on social media will be generated by other AI? When the phone call is joined by 400 AI assistants instead of humans (assuming such phone calls exist at all)? When all those expense reports are also AI generated?

The main problem in the next 5 years and beyond will be filtering factual information from AI generated garbage, which is a difficult task for humans in traditional journalism. Until we solve that problem, more AI content is just adding more noise.

[tartoran]

I don't doubt that the scale will improve but I am very skeptical that the reasoning will see the same kind of growth, and at scale, in the example you're describing could look like a shitshow. It's possible the reasoning will improve but with a paradigm shift which I don't see it happening at the moment.

[vouaobrasil]

I think the point is that it might not happen in five years but it will certainly happen in 20, and we should still be as concerned about it then as we are now, because such a powerful technology could definitely spin out of control.

[tartoran]

Yes, I agree.