This month marks three years since ChatGPT entered our daily lives. This and other chatbots are already one more in everyday tasks, from writing simple emails, to taking over classrooms, to being used as mental health counselors or even as a gateway to finding out what is happening in the world. Should we resist it or integrate it, but consciously? Cristina Aranda, Big Data and AI consultant, co-founder of MujeresTech and ELLIS Alicante, talked about it with Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ángela Ruiz Robles Award in Applied Informatics in 2018, in a round table, moderated by EL PAÍS journalist Manuel G. Pascual at the Tendencias 2025 event.
For Aranda the problem is how technological innovation is presented: “We are sold that artificial intelligence is magic and it is not like that, nor is it that intelligent; they are still very slow systems. We are still in the infancy of data, they are the raw material of artificial intelligence and many companies still have an internal Diogenes about it. Machines are missing the road.” Baeza-Yates agrees with her and emphasizes that not all innovation is inherently good: “Good regulation prevents false innovations. We have to be clear-sighted, not believe what we see, discern truth from lies, and if we want to be better than artificial intelligence, we have to do it ourselves.”
Him Trends Event 2025 This is a meeting organized by EL PAÍS with the patronage of Abertis, Enagás, EY, Novartis, OEI (Organization of Ibero-American States), Redeia and Santander.
