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At the beginning of this year, that being 2023, I said like it felt like it was going to be the year of AI

and so far I think I'm pretty much on the money, but more specifically 2023 has been the year of

generative AI. That is, artificial intelligence that creates or generates something, whether it's an image,

a sound or as we're going to talk about today, text in response to some sort of input.

Now before we go any further, this is where we need to remind ourselves that while this is a

type of artificial intelligence, it's not all of AI. Not every AI application involves generative

processes. And while generative AI can seem fascinating, exciting, surprising, or creepy,

I believe that largely stems from how generative AI appears to be mimicking humans.

And it's not an indication of how sophisticated, advanced, or dangerous it really is.

It's kind of an uncanny valley thing because it appears to be behaving like a human.

We start to project things on it that aren't necessarily accurate or realistic. I think of it

kind of like the way we can be with our pets, where we will project things on our pets that may not

reflect what the pet is actually experiencing, but that's how we're perceiving it. So the reason I

say all of this up at the very top of this episode is that we're also seeing a lot of people expressing

concern about AI, which is understandable, you know, about how it could potentially lead to harm.

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