By 2030, artificial intelligence can take care of the elderly, make movies and teach lessons – or it can wipe out the human race.

These are completely different predictions from eight experts in artificial intelligence from the US and the UK, who project how technology could change our lives within the next decade.

It comes amid growing calls from regulators to freeze the development of artificial intelligence, amid fears it could lead to waves of job losses.

Here are eight major changes that will happen by 2030:

Produce entire movies in one day

AI technology could get so good that it will start making entire films within a day, predicts New York-based writer of the Apple TV sci-fi series, Cello Mr. Howey.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said it is only a matter of time before AI tools can make movies. I’ve had access to alpha versions of art generators for a few years now, and have seen how quickly they go from very rough approximations to photo-realism so well you can’t tell the difference between AI art and photography. And the films that have been made are now in the same early stages that I saw the art still going through a couple of years or so ago. It’s only a matter of time and processing power before movies are created in real time. The movies will be terrible at first, but they will get better. I think people will watch it and be fascinated by it even when it’s not very good.

Artificial intelligence also has the potential to transform the education sector and tailor lesson plans according to the classroom.

Dr Ajaz Ali, Head of Business, Computing and Forecasting at Ravensbourne University in London, predicted that children will soon be able to have their own personal AI tutor offering lessons tailored to the areas they struggle with.

He suggested that this be done through augmented reality glasses or robots.

“We could also see AI-powered virtual teachers, who will provide personalized feedback and support to students. In the next 10 years, we may see AI-powered virtual classrooms that can create a more interactive and immersive learning experience,” Ali said.

It is expected that AI will be used to supplement existing traditional teaching methods, rather than replacing teachers entirely.

Currently, available AI platforms such as ChatGPT can create lesson plans for teachers that are tailored to a specific class.

The eradication of the human race?

Amid suggestions that artificial intelligence will improve our lives immeasurably, there are also experts who warn that it could wipe out the human race by 2030.

Among the pessimists is the American computer scientist Eliezer Yudkovsky, who bets $100 that the human race will end completely by January 1, 2030. He is a noted researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California, and one of the most outspoken experts on AI warnings.

He wrote earlier this year: “If someone builds an artificial intelligence so powerful that, under present circumstances, I expect every member of the human race and all biological life on Earth to perish shortly thereafter. Possible outcome of humanity encountering superintelligence It’s a complete loss.”

He says that artificial intelligence can wipe out humanity if its intelligence exceeds humans, and then develop different values and goals for humans.

Other leading experts who say AI could ‘destroy civilization’ include billionaire Elon Musk and British scientist Stephen Hawking – although they don’t mean to suggest that all humans will be wiped out by 2030.

Musk has been sounding the alarm about AI for years, warning just last month that it could destroy civilization — though he suggests it won’t completely wipe out humans because we’re an “interesting” part of the universe. He claimed that it will be smarter than humans by 2030.

Hawking previously warned that artificial intelligence could “take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate” and finite humans, constrained by biological evolution, would struggle to keep up.

Enhance the value of the global economy by nearly a fifth

Experts also suggest that artificial intelligence could boost the value of the global economy by $15.7 trillion by 2030, or more than the value of the economies of India and China combined, and by a fifth compared to current levels.

The prediction was made by analysts working for the London-based accounting firm “Big Four” PwC.

They say this will be driven by the development of more improved and personalized products, which will lead to a consumer-driven boom.

“Our research also shows that 45% of all economic gains by 2030 will come from product improvements, spurring consumer demand,” PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a study published in January. “This is because AI will drive greater product diversification, with greater personalization, attractiveness and ability to bearing costs over time.

Solve the energy crisis

There are also suggestions that artificial intelligence could help solve the world’s energy crisis by 2030.

Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, the San Francisco, California-based developer of ChatGPT, said that by 2030 AI will have solved the crisis.

In a series of tweets in 2021, he said: “The future could be too good for any of us to imagine. My main point on this is that we will have ‘unlimited’ intelligence and energy.”

He noted that AI would do so by helping to develop nuclear fusion, a method of releasing energy from atoms for use that does not result in long-lived nuclear waste. Also, breakdowns in such facilities are practically impossible.

Achieving human-like intelligence

Predictions also abound that artificial intelligence could reach human-like intelligence by 2030.

Among those who sounded the warning was former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil, a famous futurist who claims that predictions have an 86% success rate.

Speaking at a conference in Austin, Texas, in 2017, he said, “The date 2029 is the fixed date I predicted when artificial intelligence would pass the Turing test and thus achieve human intelligence levels.”

He had previously said that in 2014 computers will ‘be equal’ with humans, and will be able to flirt, tell jokes and tell stories.

And there are already growing concerns that AI will lead to thousands of redundancies as companies start using the technology to fill jobs as soon as they need people.

Anticipate medical problems

In healthcare, AI can predict problems before they happen by 2030, says AI expert Simon Payne, founder and CEO of the software company OmniIndex, based in San Jose, California.

Payne believes that the future of AI will be services built around specific needs.

But he adds that these will be very different from existing AI systems, such as ChatGPT.