we have seen the use of artificl
intelligence skyrocket recently.
Patrick Hunt is here to talk a
little bit about AI this mornin.
You work with Lyrio, a tech company here.
And Patrick, the Knox County Liy
is also hosting kind of a serief
sessions to talk about and dig into AI,
the history of it, where it's headed.
Some concerns, maybe the benefi.
There's a lot to dig into,
so maybe we can start a little bit just
by telling us about these sessis
at the Public Library and how pe
can involve can get involved th.
Yeah, sure.
Thanks for having me here today.
I'm excited to talk about it.
There's a four part lunch and ln
series we started last Thursdayt
noon at the Knox County History Center,
the Knoxville History Center downtown.
It will continue this Thursday
and through Thursdays in May.
We kicked off talking about a bf
overview or working definition
of AI and the history of AI.
But when we open it up for
questions and answers,
everyone wanted to get right to
the scary stuff and everything
we've been hearing lately about
what to be concerned about.
Should we?
What should we do about the comg
advancements in artificial intelligence?
So maybe let's dig into that a little bit.
First of all, tell us your overl
thoughts on artificial intellig.
Let's dig into. Maybe the,
the advantages but also the
risks that could come with
it, Absolutely.
So artificial intelligence is ry
a transformational technology.
I mean research has been going n
since the 40s or 50s in AI and it can
dramatically change the way we ,
work and play in all aspects of our lives.
One of the the ways that LIRIO uses it,
for example, is to hyper
personalize digital communicati.
To motivate people to take better action for
health when they otherwise would not do so.
So we're working with Covenant
Health in Knoxville, for exampl,
on mammographies and getting
women to get mammographies when
they otherwise would not do so.
Very, very powerful option.
So that's one very narrow
use case that we apply.
But artificial intelligence can
be applied very, very broadly.
So if you ever go to Google
Images to search for something,
by the way, that's a I it's it's
used to do pattern matching.
And understanding the difference
between a cat and a dog, for example,
it's a form of artificial intelligence.
So it's it's being used dramatically.
And what what has happened
recently are really two things.
Last year, the advancement of
solutions like Mid Journey,
which allows you to create imagy
out of prompts, text prompts,
Internet text prompts,
they create me an image
of downtown Knoxville.
In a dystopian style, for examp.
Or later in the year,
the release of ChatGPT,
which is the most popular of
the large language models which
generate text from your prompts.
And so that's what's really
accelerated the interest in the
advancement of AI in the last y.
And
interestingly enough, I mean,
you're hosting these sessions,
you said you actually went to An
order to help you kind of formulate the
outline for your speeches. Yeah, I got
very meta on me. So I used Chat,
and three other generative AI
solutions to generate outlines
and scripts for the presentatio.
I compared the results using an
AI solution that allows you to
compare documents and edit them,
and then I took the result and I reviewed it.
And then I created my own
presentation out of that input.
So I think of the current
versions of things like ChatGPT.
As a research assistant
or a writing assistant,
and so you're you're in the
business of telling stories.
Anybody who tells stories needso
be really concerned about or pag
attention to a I and generativeA
I in particular like like chat T
because it will change your wor.
It will change anyone's work.
Who's in the business of writin?
Storytelling, research, legal assistance?
These types of things,
it's going to be dramatic.
Yeah.
And we are running out of time.
I do just want to ask you this.
I think I have to ask you this.
Is there a cause for concern?
Will this eventually turn into killer
robots who will manipulate us ad
to doing stuff we don't want to?
I mean, is that a valid concern to have?
It's very much a valid concern d
we need to have the conversatio.
And I think that's starting
to happen today. There was a,
there was an open letter to pau.
A I development that has its is,
but you know the lots of people
paying attention to that.
The White House recently
convened a summit on a I.
And so we need to continue to he
these conversations and make sue
we understand the implications d
put proper safeguards in place.
Patrick, thank you so much for being with us.
If you're interested in this conversation,
if you're interested in learning more
about a I, please check out his sessions.
They're currently going on at te
Knox County Public Library and l
have more information about tha.
Online as well.
Thanks so much for being with u.
Thanks for having me. All right.