AI Needs Adult Supervision
by Matt Asay
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But AI, despite the machines-rule-over-us veneer, is ultimately about people, as I've recently written. People have the potential to stop or at least seriously slow down the infiltration of AI into our lives if the driver of AI change is seen as heedless of human concerns.
analysts currently peg AWS market share at 31% and Microsoft Azure at 25%. This is impressive, given that AWS had roughly 100% of the market during the early years, and held a commanding lead for years. No more. Much of that comes down to CIO trust in Microsoft, as well as Microsoft's aggressive maneuvering in AI.
Speaking of the Johansson incident, Charlie Warzel writes in The Atlantic that this seems like "yet another example of a tech company blowing past ethical concerns and operating with impunity."
However, as Warzel continues, this isn't just an OpenAI thing, but rather "a reminder of AI's Manifest Destiny philosophy: This is happening, whether you like it or not." And let's be clear: Sometimes we really, really don't like it.
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