National Technology Day: Generative AI holds more opportunities than risks

The report states that many experts have expressed that generative artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) otherwise known as ‘Creative AI’ holds more opportunities than risks. It added that the AI ​​segment has generated a lot of interest and fear at the same time. interest because most CEOs have said oh Foundation models will play a key role in their organizations’ strategies over the next 3-5 years. While there is fear as these technologies will take away the job or work in any organization across the board.

Vic Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, Coforge (NIIT Technologies) told ANI, “Generative AI (GAI), sometimes also called “creative AI”, is based on neural language models and has generated a lot of interest recently. and has sparked a lot of discussion in the community. We believe that GAI has more opportunities than risks and we still need to harness its true potential to improve our productivity, ingenuity, creativity, efficiency and communication. Find out the potential.”

He added that according to Accenture’s estimates, 40 percent of all working hours will be supported or augmented by language-based AI.

Vik Gupta said that the world has witnessed the tremendous growth of Generative AI and ChatGPT has turned AI into one of the hottest technology trends of the year.

ChatGPT can also help content creators for a variety of purposes, including brainstorming, providing inspiration, or creating drafts for articles, blog posts, or social media content. It can also answer questions, provide clarification or engage in interactive conversations with users.

Sundar Balasubramanian, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies, said, “Generative AI-based capabilities have been around for a while, though ChatGPT has taken center stage recently. As such generative AI is a double-edged sword.”

While this could help developers write and fix code more quickly, enable better chat services for companies, or even change search engines, the Check Point MD said it could be used by hackers. But generative AI also poses risks to those who can potentially take advantage of it to create malware and phishing. Email, leading to more cyberattacks.

“Our Check Point research team consists of over 150 researchers researching new threats, emerging cyberthreats and ongoing cyberattacks, with a dedicated team working exclusively on research related to ChatGPT. We also have engines like AI and ML in our technology solutions, which help prevent more threats, Balasubramanian said.

“We are advising our customers to have separate controls in place to cover security risks from emerging cyber threats such as ransomware and the growing threat from generative AI,” he added.

(With inputs from ANI)