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AI and You Exploring the Boundaries, Benefits, and Dangers of Generative AI
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rtificial intelligence is not going to steal your job. Artificial intelligence is not going to destroy the human race. But this powerful new technology is here, and you will be using it. Chances are that you have been using it already. If you’ve dictated a text message into Siri, asked Alexa anything, or used predictive text in an email, then you have used AI in one form or another. It’s been integrated into our daily lives in subtle ways already. When ChatGPT launched this past spring, AI flexed
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its muscle with a chatbot that produced seemingly thoughtful responses to inquiries of all things imaginable. Generative AI gave its best presentation of mimicking human interaction. What ChatGPT showed is AI’s ability to combine increased computing power with the availability of massive data sets to make quick analysis of patterns and create unique content. ChatGPT shows the future of AI is in a data-driven world, where the system can compute enormous amounts of data, and generate responses to that data.
