Can AI Live Up To Its Promise?
CIO, Thursday, February 27th, 2025
The realm of artificial intelligence, long a source of imaginative tales, has transitioned into a robust and evolving discipline. It's emerging as a major catalyst for societal transformation.
This is one of the questions that has been on our minds for some time now every time we read about the latest advances and promises of artificial intelligence (AI). The bombardment of information about the progress of AI is continuous and comes from many fronts with different objectives; either conveying excessive optimism (e.g. superintelligent, conscious AI, etc.) or, on the contrary, drawing dystopian scenarios (e.g. AI that will exterminate humanity). In either case, often with opinions or information far removed from reality, and with a confused objective, which often gives us a mistaken idea of AI and its real transformative potential. Shedding light and clarity on this issue is the aim of a recently published paper from Tecnalia titled 'Can transformative AI shape a new age for our civilization?: Navigating between speculation and reality.'