New leaders, old problems, and the AI shift

For another --and this may sound incredible to many-- artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to make a defining impact this year, both positively and negatively, as experts predict.

- Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon

On the negative side, white-collar, middle-class jobs may be reduced by as much as 50% worldwide. However, many of these may be replaced by new types of jobs requiring different skill sets. On the positive side, long-standing problems such as infrastructure gaps and traffic congestion may suddenly see both short-term and long-term solutions emerge almost overnight.

I experimented with an Al app recently after getting stuck in traffic along Salinas Drive that Wednesday night. I’m not a traffic expert, but I’d like to think I’m smart enough to ask the right questions or prompts for AI to generate sensible answers to my queries. With Google Maps images of the IT Park—Banilad corridor fed into the Al app, what I saw was a layered and strategic understanding of the traffic issue. It studied the layout of the roads and broke the problem down. It offered solutions in stages.