#AI #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT:"While everyone is looking for exciting new uses for generative AI, I personally can’t wait for it to become boring.

Amid early signs that people are starting to lose interest in the technology, companies might find that these sorts of tools are better suited for mundane, low-risk applications than solving humanity’s biggest problems.

Applying AI in, for example, productivity software such as Excel, email, or word processing might not be the sexiest idea, but compared to warfare it’s a relatively low-stakes application, and simple enough to have the potential to actually work as advertised. It could help us do the tedious bits of our jobs faster and better.

Boring AI is unlikely to break as easily and, most important, won’t kill anyone. Hopefully, soon we’ll forget we’re interacting with AI at all. (It wasn’t that long ago when machine translation was an exciting new thing in AI. Now most people don’t even think about its role in powering Google Translate.)

That’s why I’m more confident that organizations like the DoD will find success applying generative AI in administrative and business processes."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/22/1078230/why-we-should-all-be-rooting-for-boring-ai/