Does the future include AI-powered robots?

The station turned to Jeffrey Shaffer, director of Lindner College of Business’ Applied AI Lab, for what to expect in the future of generative artificial intelligence. 

“It’s going to look completely different. This is a paradigm shift like we haven’t seen in our lifetime,” Shaffer told 700WLW. “AI is going to be like electricity. You’re going to use it every day.”

For generative AI tools in particular, the next step is an implementation in the real world similar to the Industrial Revolution, according to Shaffer. 

Even just five years from now, Shaffer said there will be a major impact to businesses across the Ohio valley. Further out, there could be robotic AI assistants in households across the country, he predicted. 

“In the near future, as an educator, we are teaching AI,” he said. In his classroom, he teaches his students the dangers of deepfake video and audio content. “It’s a matter of training students, training the current workforce up on the current tools and keeping them up to date because the environment is changing so rapidly,” he added. 

Listen to the full 700WLW interview. 

Featured image at top of a robotic hand. Photo/Pixabay