Yoshua Bengio, regarded as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, has likened the now-ubiquitous technology to a bear. When we teach the bear to become smart enough to escape its cage, we no longer control it. All we can do after that is try to build a better cage.
This should be our goal with the generative AI tools rapidly coming to market today, both as standalone services and in countless integrations with existing products. While this lightspeed adoption seems inevitable, we are not too late to mitigate the growing risks associated with it – but we need to act fast.
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Source: Trend Micro
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