Generative artificial intelligence: Rise of the machines – GIS Reports

The latest technological advances suggest that the "AI revolution" will deliver socioeconomic turmoil, massive wealth redistribution – or both. Recent months have seen a lot of conversation about the dangers and opportunities presented by the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Most of this has been stirred up by ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot created by the Microsoft-backed OpenAI and launched to the public in late 2022. The software's impressive capabilities – formulating articulate, (usually) accurate responses to complex questions, and creating text often indistinguishable from that of a human writer – have reignited debates about "the robots taking over." Much of the public appears divided into two camps: the technophiles, excited about "upgrading" our already symbiotic relationship with computers; and the modern-day Luddites, foes of progress who fear these new machines just as their predecessors feared textile mechanization.