Austin Forum on Technology & Society | Book Discussion - Introduction to Generative AI

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Generative AI has fueled a new boom in the awareness, adoption, and usage of AI due to its impressive capabilities to generate accurate text, realistic images, and even high-quality music and video. Its explosive adoption for personal usage is now complemented by fast growth in professional usage: Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and many other companies now offer enterprise-grade generative AI tools for workers. However, this has all occurred so rapidly (just over a year) that people are still learning how these tools work, how to use them most effectively to save time and avoid errors and risk, and what the social and legal responsibilities are. Fortunately, this new book by Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler will address all of these topics and more, and Numa will lead this Austin Forum online discussion to answer any questions you still have so that you can use these tools most effectively and safely in your companies, organizations, and lives.

As always, we encourage everyone to obtain and read the book in advance. For this topic, we also encourage you to try out some generative AI tools and to read more about the societal concerns and opportunities being addressed in so many online news and media sources. This is an exciting topic and there is much to think about, discuss, and debate as we all determine the best way to integrate generative AI tools into our work and lives.