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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #267 AI and Humanity, with Darren Martin
Description: With the launch of ChatGPT, the power of generative AI has captured public attention. Systems like this can not only work through millions of options, like earlier chess-playing supercomputers, but develop original ideas that might not occur to humans, used to working within proven traditional approaches.
New techniques of advanced information processing like this, promise to do much of the same work as humans in the blink of an eye. The challenge society now faces is to decide which tasks can be performed by machines, and which should be left to humans. For professional services firms, that...