Key Points
With the popularity of AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's new Bing, and Google's Bard, generative AI (artifical intelligence) is the talk of the town..
Elon Musk and other tech experts even called for a ban on development of AI citing safety reasons and wrote an open letter about the same..
However, Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer, Eric Horvitz, opposes this request for a ban and says that we should, in fact, research more about AI and get to know the technology better...
Reacting to the open letter by Elon Musk, Horvitz told Fortune in an interview, that he respects the people who signed the letter and finds it 'reasonable' for people to be concerned..
While Microsoft's Eric Horvitz is quite convinced about exploring the AI space more and gather more information, a top scientist from Google made headlines recently when he quit his job so that he could warn the world about what's coming...
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