Part 8/11:
The Limitations and Potential of AI: Current Challenges
Despite the optimism, McCoy underscores the limitations of ANI, particularly its inability to understand or adapt to complex or novel scenarios involving personal human experiences. Achieving true understanding necessitates AGI, which remains a work in progress, but she believes it is inevitable given the rapid pace of technological advancement.
She explains that current systems like GPT-4 are already powerful enough to threaten many jobs due to their capacity for automation and content generation. As AI tools become more sophisticated, many routine tasks—especially those that are predictable or step-based—are vulnerable to automation.