What does the future hold for generative AI?
Dina Katabi, principal investigator at MIT Jameel Clinic, participated in a roundtable discussion during MIT's Generative AI Week, a symposium addressing challenges and opportunities for generative AI's role in business, education and health.
Speaking at the “Generative AI: Shaping the Future” symposium on Nov. 28, the kickoff event of MIT’s Generative AI Week, keynote speaker and iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks warned attendees against uncritically overestimating the capabilities of this emerging technology, which underpins increasingly powerful tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
“Hype leads to hubris, and hubris leads to conceit, and conceit leads to failure,” cautioned Brooks, who is also a professor emeritus at MIT, a former director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and founder of Robust.AI.
“No one technology has ever surpassed everything else,” he added.