Devoxx Greece 2024 - SciFi or AI? Your pocket guide to 2030 and beyond.

Speakers : Yannis Stavroulas & Konstantinos Megalokonomos Nuclear energy was brought in the spotlight with a tragic bang: the explosion at Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Generative AI, an equally raw and potent power, was also brought in the spotlight with a bang, thankfully not at all tragic: the launch of ChatGPT at San Francisco, on 30 November 2022. But we cannot foreclose catastrophic outcomes just yet. Today, more than a year later, most of humanity has yet to comprehend the dynamics of this new power. Even among us, the dev and R&D community, AI is viewed as the new toy at our fingertips. We know it's the next revolution but hey, we're used to those. And superintelligence is going to be another SciFi-come-true story, awesome! Maybe it's time to sit back and think it through a bit. In the total absence of regulation, it's up to us to see how we'll use this great power and what we'll make of it for the next while. In this presentation we go over the expected socio-economic impact of AI across different industries, geographies and cultures. We outline strengths, limitations and threats of the emerging tech and review recent research to gauge the near and not-so-near future. And we use this info to draw some conclusions about what we can do, and what kind of regulation we should lobby for, to steer away from dystopic futures!