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Debunking Myths about Generative AI

 This would effectively dispel the common misconceptions about generative AI. What are people envisioning generative AI to be? A helper that creates everything from text to images! And with its fast evolution, most myths must be debunked. One of them is that generative AI is conscious or sentient. These models produce text with human-direction quality-similar output but are essentially advanced algorithms of pattern matching with virtually no actual understanding or self-awareness at all.2 They are trained on enormous amounts of datasets but are not rational like humans.


Another myth is that generative AI will render human creativity totally obsolete.3 Some creative work might be automated and available for its new methods in the hands of artists, but generative AI cannot replace human ingenuity entirely.4 Human creativity emerged from feelings, experiences, and a great sense of context, which appears to be far beyond the capabilities of present AI.5 Instead, it will enhance human creativity and capture contemporary collaborative work.6

There's another fear of mass unemployment. Yes, of course, some repetitive jobs walking off due to generative AI, that goes without saying. But history will demonstrate that new employment opportunities are created alongside established ones are rendered obsolete by fresh technology.7 We will maybe soon observe opportunities for work being created with generative AI improvements in AI construction, upkeep, and moral supervision and yet retain all the aptitude work which requires advanced problem-solving, higher-order thinking, and emotional competence to human hands.8

Only part of the mystique believes generative AI is innately biased, but not too much. These AI systems are trained on data, and if the data contains prejudice that is present in society, it will likely reinforce the bias in the outputs.9 It is a fact that researchers are stuck on this as it is an acknowledged technical problem and are developing techniques for minimizing bias in the data that is to be trained and the model outputs.10 By acknowledging the bias and then addressing it, we can strive towards designs for more equitable and fairer AI systems.


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