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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Tuesday October 22nd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

AI excitement seems to be everywhere.

And while some generative artificial intelligence developments may have the potential to be

transformational, others are overhiked.

At least that's according to Arvin Narayanan, professor and director of the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton

University, an author of the book AI Snake Oil.

But for business leaders looking to offer innovative products, AI could be a door to a new future.

The co-founder and CEO of Cloud Storage Company Box, Aaron Levy, has said generative AI will

enable Box to enter its third era as a company.

Naryana and Levy sat down with our tech columnist Christopher Mims at the W.S.J.

CIO Network Summit to discuss what Generative AI can do and how it's being overhiked.

Today we've got highlights from that conversation. So let's start with kind of your respective positions though because I think there is

some daylight here that's worth talking about so you Aaron, you and I have talked about how you are helping your customers

incorporate AI into these existing workflows that they're building with your platform.

And you're clear-eyed about the limits of that,

but you're also bullish on, oh, this

is going to be transformational,

as we put it into various steps of these existing workflows and it's

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