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Régis Mathias

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for viewers, it has also had a positive impact on the lives and performance of people who create shows/movies. AI could have a similar positive effect on the creation of shows/films, but it has to be released/used in a cautious/controlled manner. Before the end of last year, Sam Altman was fired and then reinstated as CEO of OpenAI and a new board of directors was voted in … hey, stuff happens. His approach was similar to that of a lot of software developers … develop it, release it, break it and we’ll fix it when folks find a problem. That worked fine when you developed/delivered a video game or work processing package. It doesn’t work with AI – which has been quietly automating human tasks for years - because the foundation of the technology is that it simulates the human intelligence process. Last we checked, the basic goal of the human intelligent process is to … survive. We realize the AI tools are developed to do special things better and more reliably or help people do their work more quickly and accurately but … Because it can do both good and evil equally well, most of the leading experts joined together and signed a letter that they wanted the government to establish a clear set of laws, guidelines and guardrails on the implementation and use of the technology. Helluva idea! We don’t know about your country’s national government; but here in the US, the average age of a congress person who has to establish these rules is 58 (the oldest is 81-83) while the median age of an American is 38 years of age. Back in 1992, then President George H.W. Bush was amazed when he saw a supermarket barcode scanner. We’re not picking on George but if a person has held a senior position in our government for a long time, there’s a pretty good chance the only thing they know about AI is how to spell it. We know, cheap shot. But the EU has already spent considerable time looking at the technology from almost every

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