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As highlighted in a recent article, the release of ChatGPT in its various guises, along with numerous other generative AI-based technologies, has heralded a flurry of articles, studies, and headlines lauding the often catastrophic impact such technologies will have on jobs and society more broadly.

It’s the kind of simplistic and often doom-laden narrative that so often thrives on social media. As Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox remind us in their recent book Gradual, however, change seldom happens rapidly and almost never happens in such a linear fashion.

The study surveyed executives from 200 large companies and found that while most recognized the importance of new technologies, many were unrealistic about their ability to transform their businesses. The survey revealed that companies that took a more measured and realistic approach to technology adoption tended to be more successful.

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OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 has advanced more rapidly than any application In the history of the internet. In just five days, it has surpassed one million users compared to Instagram taking 2.5 months, Facebook at 10 months and Netflix 3.5 years.

Microsoft is staking its future growth by optimizing its Bing search engine, with its own intelligent chat capabilities, based on large language model touted as more powerful that ChatGPT3.

Hedging its bet on generative AI, Microsoft has also made a major investment in OpenAI with a $10B investment.

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I’ve got two questions for you that you’ve undoubtedly generically heard of before. Prepare yourself mentally. First, have we hit the wall? Second, does size matter? Both of those questions have deeply entered into the behind-the-scenes news about the latest in generative AI.

Generative AI is the type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can generate various outputs by the entry of text prompts. You’ve likely used or known about ChatGPT by AI maker OpenAI which allows you to enter a text prompt and get a generated essay in response, referred to as a text-to-text or text-to-essay style of generative AI, for my analysis of how this works see the link here.

A recent remark by the OpenAI CEO has brought to the fore an ongoing debate whether generative AI such as ChatGPT is nearing a wall and getting bigger won’t make a difference. Here’s the inside scoop on that hefty debate.

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The push for the smartest web browser is officially on. Just a month after Microsoft announced an AI-powered version of its search engine Bing, Google has announced it will be also be adding AI functionality to allow users to interact with it in more human ways. Right now, the substance of the announcement is all speculation. There is no known release date (yet) for its AI-powered engine, and no specific AI model has been chosen. Still, Google, which has invested billions on AI in just the past few years, is throwing its hat in the ring as a clear sign that the race for AI leadership is far from over. Its recent announcement merging its DeepMind and Brain divisions further reiterates that.

The addition of Generative AI capabilities to Google Search will be critical if Google intends to remain the top search engine globally. And while there are more questions than answers at this time, Google is going to be adding conversational to its search platform and it should be well received.

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Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, a security platform powered by Sec-PaLM, a large language model (LLM) designed specifically for cybersecurity use cases.

Sec-PaLM modifies the organization’s existing PaLM model and processes Google’s proprietary threat intelligence data alongside Mandiant’s frontline intelligence to help identify and contain malicious activity, and coordinate response actions.

Stanford University researchers have developed a generative AI model that can choreograph human dance animation to match any piece of music. It’s called Editable Dance GEneration (EDGE).

“EDGE shows that AI-enabled characters can bring a level of musicality and artistry to dance animation that was not possible before,” says Karen Liu, a professor of computer science who led a team that included two student collaborators, Jonathan Tseng and Rodrigo Castellon, in her lab.

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AI programs have safety restrictions built in to prevent them from saying offensive or dangerous things. It doesn’t always work.

Called it. and i said 2029/2030. Looks like will happen sooner. my prediction was AI would be able to do 100% of production start to end, with almost zero input from people, except maybe for a creative director — producer person.

As artificial intelligence continues to disrupt the entertainment industry, many moviegoers have been left wondering at what point AI will be creating full feature films. According to Joe Russo, co-director of Marvel movies such as “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” that time could be coming in two years.

“I’m on the board of a few AI companies,” Russo told Collider. “I’m gonna speak from my experience of being on the board of those companies, [so] there are AI companies that are developing AI to protect you from AI. And unfortunately, we’re in that world, and you will need an AI in your life because whether we want to see it developed or not, people who are not friendly to us may develop it anyways. So, we’re going to be in that future. The question is, then, how we protect ourselves in that future?”

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Kurzweil says NO, on AI pause non sense.

By Ray Kurzweil April 2023

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