Epilogue: Digital in the Age of AI
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Ron Amara
To ChatGPT or Not to ChatGPT
As I was writing this book (Q4/2022-Q2/2023), ChatGPT, a generative AI from the OpenAI foundation (or is it a commercial corporation?) burst onto society, with all the (yet) unforeseen consequences. It arrived a few years earlier than most of us thought it would, but I guess, had we paid enough attention, the signs were there for all to see. And it reached one million users in only five days.
What to make of it and what will it mean to society, our industries, and lives?
ChatGPT and similar models are large language-generative models (LLM), not knowledge ...
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