Notwithstanding the call for slowing down GAI until controls can be applied, businesses are charging ahead, according to today’s NYTimes.  (I hate to say it, but per my immediately prior post, was the writer correct that the drive for profit trumps all other considerations?)

Major companies (Oracle, Salesforce, AT&T, Amazon) are providing GAI business products that: help engineers produce new code; create sales material and product descriptions for marketing; answer employee questions; summarize meeting notes and lengthy documents.

Further, Gartner reports over half of business customer-users have no internal policy on GAI usage, which is unsettling (I note a very small sample size, however.)

Meanwhile, nothing is heard from Congress, and precious little beyond passing mention from the White House. In an earlier post, I noted that the tendency in the US, when it comes to new tech, is to let it advance unencumbered for some time, then step back and evaluate risk and need for regulation based on what has actually happened “on the ground.”  This reflects the desire to foster the entrepreneurial spirit and to keep the US ahead of the world in new technologies.  While I have no direct line to either the Congress or President Biden (who falls into the vast category of people who have never bought me a beer), it seems that our government is going to let the AGI beast run wild for a bit longer, notwithstanding the various warnings voiced by the gamekeepers.