07-12, 10:00–10:50 (US/Eastern), Marillac Auditorium
2023 marked the year of generative AI with the introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT. The model's abilities shocked the world and made OpenAI the world's fastest growing customer base in history. Stocks soared and MBAs rejoiced at what increasingly appears to be a corporate grift and an acceleration of the "enshittification" of the Internet and our digital lives. However, all hope is not lost. The hacker ethic holds the key to steering our course back to the trade winds of a free and fair society. This talk will address the fundamental technical and philosophical issues with mainstream AI and provide some ideas on how we can recognize the differences between enshittification and societal benefit.
Dr. Saul D. Robinson is a husband, father, and walker of two dogs. He is an American immigrant born in the United Kingdom and a long term resident of St. Louis, Missouri. Beginning his education with a degree in physics, he forgot to stop and ended up with far too many pieces of paper from academic, professional, and government bodies. Transitioning from a two-decade aviation career, he founded Fraign Analytics. At Fraign, he develops innovative AI and machine learning applications focusing on aviation systems and multilingual NLP. Dr. Robinson's academic work includes numerous journal articles and pending patents in cooperative AI technologies.
