Remember the Terminator movies? I remember seeing the initial release while attending a conference of technology developers. “This is the wrong audience to show a movie about the evils of technology,” I quipped. 

The big technology news of the past week was the abrupt termination of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, the company that released ChatGPT.

No one is talking much about the firing. The background seems to have two threads. One concerns idealism of a not-for-profit corporation that “owns” a for-profit business within it. Altman was the point person for developing the business side. Secondly comes the concern over developing and releasing quickly versus taking a more scholarly and cautious approach to releasing the technology to the general public out of concern that the technology might take over the world and start a huge nuclear war.

Some people see an opportunity to be the next Zuckerberg. Some people see the end of humanity through war and losing all jobs.

The latest news today held that Altman and the allies who resigned in protest are in talks to rejoin the company. If he does not, he will start a new company developing and releasing artificial intelligence products anyway.

We have been using neural networks and machine learning (AI) for years in a variety of industrial applications. AI technology is embedded in many other applications. Several bloggers I respect love how ChatGPT helps them research (better than Google?) and do their jobs better. It's going to be here to stay.

Where do you stand? Do you let dystopian media striving for eyeballs ignite your emotions? Do you see opportunities to do your job better?

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