Confabulators, Persuaders, and Imagination Catalysts: An Expert Perspective on the Chatbot Phenomenon

In all my years as a researcher, I’ve never had so many friends and family members asking me about AI – chatbots, in particular. Even people that I would have described as fairly disinterested in tech in general have shared with me their experiences interacting with ChatGPT, or expressed that they are fearful and/or intrigued […]

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Generative AI, Mission Critical Systems, and the Tightrope of Trust

The public release of ChatGPT3 and DALL-E 2 radically changed our expectations for the near future of AI technologies. Given the demonstrated capability of large generative models (LGMs), the ways in which they immediately captured public imagination, and the level of publicized planned capital investment, we can anticipate rapid integration of these models into current […]

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