Despite the fears of AI as an existential threat to life and livelihoods, the technology is not a grave menace to humanity in the near term. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been making a global tour to engage with legislators, policymakers, and industry leaders about his company’s pathbreaking Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) series of large language models (LLMs). While acknowledging that AI could inflict damage on the world economy, disrupt labor markets, and transform global affairs in unforeseen ways, he emphasizes that responsible use and regulatory transparency will allow the technology to make positive contributions to education, creativity and entrepreneurship, and workplace productivity. At present, however, Altman’s generative AI is most useful in improving natural language processing and machine translation.
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