No, I’m no way even an amateur in genAI but here are a couple of thoughts, not that original. Given that ChatGPT has been publicly available for just short of 4 years, genAI’s march has been speedy indeed. As for previous revolutions, many jobs will be lost and others, possibly fewer, will be created at less exalted levels than most people would like; think about being a delivery driver instead of a finance or legal professional. That may well seem extreme; is it?

Now I’m thinking about producing interactive dashboards using genAI instead of in Squirrel. Actually, the new logo was generated using genAI. The first iteration had baby holding the gun  and the second iteration included a case where daddy was pointing the gun at baby.

To my mind, one of the biggest problems is the extent to which people will become even less able to challenge genAI model results as clearly wrong. In one High Court case, 18 of 45 case-law citations were fictitious, far from being the only case where an LLM had a hallucination. Sadly, in the UK, I don’t see critical thinking being taught now nor for many years in the past.