This tension between AI saving or ruining the world has marked the year since ChatGPIT’s launch.
For example, Elon Musk signed a letter calling for a pause on AI innovations and just a few months later started his own company, XAI, joining an increasingly crowded market.
Google, Meta, and Amazon have all made AI promises in their company announcements and have invested in AI startups.
Killer robot or magic wand, corporations across all sectors are signing up to try out AI, usually through their cloud providers, Microsoft, Google or Amazon, or OpenAI.
Rowan Curran, an analyst at Forrester Research, said, “The time it takes from learning about generative AI to actually deciding to spend time building applications around it is the shortest time I’ve seen for any type of technology. “
But fears remain that bots could “hallucinate”, churning out false, nonsensical or offensive content, so the company’s efforts remain modest for now.
One effort is AI agents, a type of advanced chatbot that can help office workers have more fun while working via email, writing memos, or sending instant messages.
Software programmers boast their powers on the developer collaboration platform Github.
“This is about being able to bring the benefits of AI broadly to everyone,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said this month.
The move towards AI increases the fear of threats such as human extinction and social concerns such as prejudice, job displacement and disinformation on an industrial scale.