Telcos Won't Find Much Joy In Gen AI As They Latch Onto The Hype
Light Reading, Thursday, July 13,2023
There is no such thing as artificial intelligence (AI), or - if there is - it is not to be found in the generative AI programs now mushrooming across the planet. Not, that is, if by intelligence people mean something that approximates the human variety. And if this were not the implication, why use "artificial" as a qualifier?
What we have instead is a kind of very sophisticated search engine able to string together complete sentences, at a human's prompt, after it has ransacked the Internet for words and explanations generated mainly by humans. There is nothing original in gen AI. The moments of genius in human history - Einstein coming up with his theory of relativity, say, or even Jimi Hendrix turning a conventional electric guitar upside down and playing it left-handed in a style no one had before - will never be matched by the AI we have now.