{"id":164301,"date":"2023-05-20T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fear-the-fire-or-harness-the-flame-the-future-of-generative-ai"},"modified":"2023-05-20T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:23:12","slug":"fear-the-fire-or-harness-the-flame-the-future-of-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fear-the-fire-or-harness-the-flame-the-future-of-generative-ai","title":{"rendered":"Fear the fire or harness the flame: The future of generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fear-the-fire-or-harness-the-flame-the-future-of-generative-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success<\/em>. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/avolio.swapcard.com\/Transform2023\/registrations\/Start?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=boiler&utm_content=landingpage&utm_campaign=T23_BoilerPlates\">Learn More<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Generative AI has taken the world by storm. So much so that in the last several months, the technology has twice been a major feature on CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d The rise of startling conversant chatbots such as <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/clearml-unveils-cleargpt-a-generative-ai-platform-overcoming-chatgpt-challenges\/\">ChatGPT<\/a> has even prompted warnings of runaway technology from some luminary artificial intelligence (AI) experts. While the current state of generative AI is clearly impressive \u2014 perhaps dazzling would be a better adjective \u2014 it might be even further advanced than is generally understood.<\/p>\n<p>This week, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/16\/technology\/microsoft-ai-human-reasoning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that some researchers in the tech industry believe these systems have moved toward something that cannot be explained as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3442188.3445922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stochastic parrot<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a system that simply mimics its underlying dataset. Instead, they are seeing \u201cAn AI system that is coming up with humanlike answers and ideas that weren\u2019t programmed into it.\u201d This observation comes from Microsoft and is based on responses to their prompts from OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Generative AI has taken the world by storm. So much so that in the last several months, the technology has twice been a major feature on CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d The rise of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}