The success of Microsoft-backed OpenAI has ignited an arms race of sorts in Silicon Valley as the tech giants seek to push their generative AI tools to the next level – though they are wary of drifting away from chatbots.
Already, AI-infused digital assistants from Microsoft and Google can summarize meetings, draft emails, build websites, craft advertising campaigns and more — giving us a glimpse of what AGI will be able to do in the future.
“We spend too much time in boredom,” said Jared Spataro, Microsoft corporate vice president.
Spatro wants to “rediscover the soul of work” with artificial intelligence, she said during a Microsoft presentation on Thursday.
Artificial intelligence could also cut costs, some suggest.
British landscape architect Joe Perkins tweeted that he used GPT-4 for a coding project that a “very nice” developer told him would cost £5,000 ($6,000) and take two weeks .
“GPT-4 delivered the same in 3 hours for $0.11,” he tweeted. “Really temperamental.”
But it raises the question of threats to human jobs, with entrepreneur Chen acknowledging that technology may one day create startups like his — or an even better version.
“How am I going to make a living and not be homeless?” he asked, adding that he was counting on solutions to emerge.
