Valérie Pisano, president and CEO of Mila, a non-profit artificial intelligence research institute, discusses the implications of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, which can create text, speech, art and video as well as people can. OpenAI’s rollout of ChatGPT has pushed us past a point of no return, and now these applications are co-writing our emails, mimicking our speech and helping users create fake (but funny) photos. Mila is researching the topic of governance, as most countries do not have any AI-focused regulations in place. Scientists and corporate stakeholders have called for the federal government to expedite the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, or AIDA, to address the implications of these tools.
