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Rise of the Machines: how worried should we be about AI?

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How to Recognize Will Ferrell

The magic behind the technology is that underpin everything that we do today with large language models and generative AI. If I'm trying to get a computer to recognize the number eight it tries to figure out how dark each pixel is. We'll be talking about on this panel what these types of AI were now instead of guessing whether or not they will fail. The first one in the room let's say  a young lawyer who just won a human rights case has really big hopes for his career because he can predict when people are going to have an emotional crisis. He says: 'I don't know if you've ever been able to look at your own face, but once you see yourself

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