We need to learn from AI’s 'first contact' moment

We need to learn from AI’s 'first contact' moment
How do we avoid repeating the mistakes of social media? It isn’t attempting to pause AI research and development, as hundreds of senior AI scientists called for last month. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
Just last week, Amazon released Bedrock, a series of generative artificial intelligence tools that let customers use large language models from the likes of AI21 Labs and Stability AI on the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing platform. That was a direct response to Microsoft’s launch in February of its Azure OpenAI service, which exclusively makes available the technology underpinning ChatGPT to Microsoft customers, via the cloud.Amazon also unveiled CodeWhisperer, its artificial intelligence-powered tool for generating computer cod...

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