The new era led by generative AI: Exploration, inspiration, and challenges

With the advent of ChatGPT, the topic of generative artificial intelligence (generative-AI) has flooded daily conversations. Outstanding performance in applications such as natural language processing, image generation, and machine translation has demonstrated the technology’s enormous potential. As a result, technology companies have begun to actively combine generative-AI’s powerful processing capabilities with the wisdom of some of the smartest talent in computer science to accelerate the era of AI.

However, these exciting prospects are not without concerns and challenges. Many worry that artificial intelligence will replace humans in jobs or even somehow usurp control from humans. The fact that AIs’ capabilities are already outrunning their creators’ understanding risks bringing to life the science-fiction disaster scenario of the machine that outsmarts its inventor.

This bubbling mixture of excitement and fear makes it hard to weigh the opportunities and risks. In this event, we will invite industry experts to share their views on the research results, application cases, and development prospects of generative-AI. We will also explore how to fruitfully use artificial intelligence to promote the progress and wellbeing of human society and cope with the challenges posed by sudden technological advances.