Description Line: While plenty is being written and said about the generative AI explosion, what’s going on in other areas of AI development? Take a dive into the world of Killer Robots!

This is Part II in a two part series. In Part I we began with the past year’s warnings from experts in the industry about the future of AI. From there we jumped back to 1637 and examined Rene Descartes’s view on automata, and then progressed through history up to Karel Čapek’s play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1921.

Quite a few AI experts, executives, developers, and others have recently expressed a lot of concerns about the future of AI. So if you have concerns about AI yourself, rest assured you are not alone. Even if we ignore these more recent warnings, you are a lot less alone than you might imagine. Scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, inventors, authors, and plenty of other people have been questioning, warning against, and wondering about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of years.

Why am I writing about the chat of a webinar? At aiEDU we spend a lot of time working on ways to help educators, whether that’s developing curriculum or other resources for students, or professional development and trainings for educators. One of the best ways to figure out what educators want and need is to listen to them. So we pay close attention to the chats of presentations that we give and attend, and this one struck me as worth sharing.

What is AI? Whether you are new to the term, an enthusiast, or even a professional in the industry, this is not easily answered. As is often the case with fields of study that are broad and currently evolving, the definitions are also broad and evolving.

aiEDU’s leadership team spent four days in San Diego last week with 5,000+ educators, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs at the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit.