If you follow tech news and have somehow managed to miss the biggest discussion possibly of this decade, AI has started to make a massive impact on the world. There aren’t many sectors of business, either public or private, that look like they’ll be completely untouched, although some are set to see more upheaval than others.
As companies and even governments now scramble to investigate and manage all the possible outcomes of AI usage in the world, below are some of those industries where AI is set to land with the biggest impact.
Entertainment and Culture
Most talked about in the media recently have been the implications that the entertainment industry is facing as AI starts to be pointed toward creative uses. Currently, we have started to see AI-created projects across music, art, writing, and even video.
There’s an ongoing debate currently in the music world about AI-generated covers of songs made to resemble popular singers creating them. As NPR.org recently reported, artists as big as Drake and The Weeknd have recently had their voices used to produce covers of other famous songs without ever being involved. In both cases, the tracks were streamed on these platforms for a significant time before getting pulled.
Aside from music, virtually every creative form has been seeing similar activity, including artists having AI systems copy and alter their work without permission. Video gaming has also seen its fair share of AI influence, with developers looking into more advanced ways to detect AI systems posing as online players.
The only segment of gaming that seems particularly safe so far is online entertainment platforms, with things like slot games looking especially resilient. Aside from having enhanced security and careful monitoring, the kind of gambling sites that get featured at CasinoReviews.com are protected by the random number generators that their games run on. Players who visit these sites are looking for reliable platforms and games that represent fairness, as well as being fun to play.
The World of Writing
In the writing world, especially when it comes to creative writing, there is also a great deal of uncertainty. Fiction writers are concerned that companies could use mass AI to generate average-quality stories at virtually no cost and simply flood the market, effectively drowning out real writers. Similarly, news journalists and similar non-fiction writers are concerned about AI being used to simply generate articles.
This has come to global attention recently with the Hollywood writers’ strike, with studios refusing to guarantee that the writers wouldn’t be replaced by AI and leading to a massive debate on the qualities of TV and movie scripts.
Sport
One area where many may be surprised to learn of AI conversations going on is in the sporting world. It may seem strange to think about, but multiple sports are investigating the potential use of AI with mixed opinions in most places.
For example, we previously covered the effect AI looks set to have on the general automotive industry here at CalBizJournal.com, but the impact there is set to be quite different from the potential for motorsports. In Formula 1 racing the margins for making adjustments to the car and driving line are razor thin, and given that technology has been growing rapidly in the sport for decades, it’s likely we could soon be seeing AI-based driver aids in vehicles.
Similarly, in sports like football, cricket, or the NFL, the idea of AI assistants for referees on close decisions has been floated around. Each sport currently uses a manual review method via cameras and limited technology but each could be feasibly replaced with an ostensibly more reliable AI judge.
The Soul of the Game
The opposition to using AI in sports has been strong. Bearing in mind that fans of each sport already protested and continue to protest the technology already in place, they certainly aren’t welcoming further tech into their sports with open arms. The arguments this time are much more straightforward: the joy and appeal of sport is the human “soul” and even though human error can cause controversy at times, it is seen as preferred to a “robotic” approach.
In all these cases, we are still at the very beginning of AI being put into practice and a long way from seeing it put to work in daily life. If we keep in mind that technologies like steam, flight and the Internet were each also met with initial scepticism, it keeps everything in context for us.
