The Download: AI's gold rush, and how to regulate generative models

Whether it's based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, a gold rush has started over the last several months to make money from generative AI models like ChatGPT. You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: "What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?" But while companies and executives want to cash in, the likely impact of generative AI on workers and the economy on the whole is far less obvious. Will ChatGPT make the already troubling income and wealth inequality in the US and many other countries even worse, or could it in fact provide a much-needed boost to productivity?