Posted by Sean Dowd, Rich Kando, and Chris Crovatto, AlixPartners LLP, on
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Sean Dowd is a Local Market Leader, Partner, and Managing Director; Rich Kando is a Partner and Managing Director; and Chris Crovatto is a Director at AlixPartners LLP. This post was prepared for the Forum by Mr. Dowd, Mr. Kando, and Mr. Crovatto.
“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour,
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye…”
-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1.1 General Prologue
GenAI Prompt: “In Chaucer’s Middle English, please summarize the sentiment on Capitol Hill this spring as it relates to the proliferation of GenAI …”
GenAI Response: “There are too many press releases to summarize and I have not yet been properly trained in Middle English.”
Artificial Intelligence, including advanced forms of Generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”), has been a headline grabbing topic for upwards of a year and arguably served as the driving force in keeping the NASDAQ Composite trading near all-time highs. GenAI can be thought of as “a machine-learning model that is trained to create new data, rather than making a prediction about a specific dataset. A generative AI system is one that learns to generate more objects that look like the data it was trained on.” It is a revolutionary technology akin to the release of mobile telephones in the 70’s or better still, the introduction of automobiles a mere 500-years after Chaucer penned his literary classic. It appears that the application of GenAI spans well beyond the realm of assisting struggling high school English students across our nation in achieving their ‘Gentleman’s C’ (…or is it now a ‘Gentleman’s B’ with the advent of these wildly powerful technologies?).
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