Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

In January, Timothy Vidas, principal engineer, Amazon Web Services, Omaha, Nebraska, spent time with the chapter, sharing his thoughts on generative artificial intelligence (AI).

To begin, Vidas revealed that his short bio slide was completely generated by generative AI. Vidas referred to generative AI as a subset of artificial intelligence that can create original content. He said it's not the best solution for everything but can be useful in some instances. Vidas feels generative AI is transforming society. It can create new content, improve existing content and personalize content for each individual user.

Vidas also commented on generative AI's negative aspects. For instance, it's not very good at predictions/forecasting, classification of items or clustering/grouping. On the extreme end, there are ugly aspects to generative AI, where users engage in IP theft and reverse engineer the model to replicate its behavior. Vidas concluded by pointing out there are clear, immense opportunities to using generative AI, but like any tool, it has positive and negative uses.

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