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5 Things You Should Know About AI Right Now

In an op-ed for The Contrarian, Adam Conner outlines five things to know about the state of artificial intelligence today.

You can’t read anything these days without hearing about artificial intelligence, and the sheer volume of news AI generates can make it difficult to understand what it’s really all about, how it’s being used, and how it will impact us humans in the United States.

At this point in time, many Americans are probably familiar with generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, or Google’s Gemini. All of these are AI Large Language Models (LLMs) that can quickly generate or create text, images, audio, and video content. Though AI has been around for decades, the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 firmly cemented AI in the public consciousness. For the first time, AI could speak to us in formats humans naturally understand.

The above excerpt was originally published in The Contrarian. Click here to view the full article.

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