As the world is fast embracing the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its gradual dominance, the Vocational Service Committee, Rotary International, District 9111 in collaboration with FirmCloud organised a transformative class entitled “Mastering AI to advance the ideals of Rotary, which took place at Rotary Centre, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.
The District Governor, Wole Kukoyi said that with the advancement of technology, AI is going to rule the world, adding that the advent of Internet was great but that of AI is greater. He said it is important for international organisations to identify with AI with a view to embracing the positive side as AI could be well related to the Rotary Four-way Test.
Chairman, Vocation Service Committee, Adeyemi Benson said the event was all about vocational competency and capacity building in Rotary with a view to preparing the members for the future and continue to be relevant.
He added that AI has come to stay in terms of information gathering, sharing and management, disclosing that United Arab Emirates would be organizing a global summit on AI that would attract 180 countries.
He remarked that it was high time Rotary International began to think differently with a view to revolutionising the club. The Facilitator, Chief Executive Officer, Firm Cloud Limited, Kelly Oriabure said the topic was to acquaint the Rotarians of the future and about the great changes that have evolved with AI.
He remarked that the implication of AI would be much more obvious as AI Personal Assistant, AI itself, Chart GPT, Voice Assistant and other different components of AI would be used to achieve daily task more efficiently, faster and more proficient.
He warned of great danger in the use of AI if not well managed as its developers have begun to warn that AI needs to be controlled which is seriously contending with humans independent authority in the area of ability to reason.
“The capacity for it to learn and re-learn and improve is far more than what a single human being can learn and assimilate. The level of information that an AI language model, for instance, can cope is far more than what a single man can cope with” he warned. He said the threat of AI compels governments in the world to control and make new legislation on how to control same
