Earlier this year, Microsoft invited me to its Silicon Valley campus to contemplate AI, the generative kind. So there I was in this enormous, airy building of the future, with hardly a human being in sight. Also: The future of generative AI: Here’s what technology analysts are saying Little did I know. At one news service, they’ve experimented with an AI version of one of its sports editors. The idea is to put some text into this AI-generated expert and let it/them speak. The year was all about generative AI. I met many people in college who’d read a lot of books. Everywhere I went I seemed to but to witness capitulism live on stage was a touch startling, and the feeling hasn’t quite gone away. …Maybe you should just believe in yourself more, What can it do without our input? (Please don’t answer that right now.)
Visiting Microsoft: A Startling yet Hopeful Discussion on AI
