Tag: AI
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The intelligence is plenty but the workers are few
Many low- and middle-income countries are preparing for AI to make information abundant. However, the frontier has shifted. Rich economies are preparing for AI to make some forms of intelligence abundant. Will advanced artificial intelligence allow LMICs to leapfrog human knowledge work—or leave them behind? Information versus intelligence Basic AI systems, like large language models…
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(How) do the poorest use AI?
Frontier AI labs have begun publishing remarkably detailed reports on how their products are used. Reports from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft have documented not only overall usage, but also insights on how AI might interact with labor markets, by linking requests to job-related tasks, and differentiating between requests for help and for automating tasks. These…
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A roadmap for AI that speaks the world’s languages
For AI to benefit all people, it will need to speak their languages and understand their worlds. AI works well in English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese—but that leaves 4 billion people whose native tongues and local conditions are not well represented. They are being left behind. Status quo Based on official technical statistics, one might…
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How could AI impact developing economies?
While the internet has changed many things, the past year’s developments in AI suggests that accessing knowledge may have simply been a prelude. Once this knowledge has been ingested into machine learning models, it can be automatically synthesized. What impact might AI have on developing economies, and on the world’s poor? If AI is as important a breakthrough…