6 questions
A piece from MIT Technology Review looking at 6 questions that will surround generative AI in 2024. For the tl;dr crowd:
- will it mitigate bias?
- what about copyright?
- how will it change our jobs?
- what misinformation will it enable?
- what about the costs?
- will doomerism dominate policymaking?
#6 is clearly in our wheelhouse and is a bit of a mess at the moment. You have a couple of different camps forming – those that think AI is an imminent existential threat on one side, and those that think that threat is overhyped and instead we should focus on near-term issues (like the first 5 above). Seems that one could be in both camps as it likely have near-term as well as existential long-term threats. But different policies will lead to different winners and losers, and stakes are high. Regardless, AI is not going away.
