A Consideration of The New Spectre, Namely The Multi-modal Language Models, That is Haunting The Balkans and How Such Applications Can be Exploited by Modern Businesses

Apr 22, 2023, 9:30 AM
30m
Business Business 1

Speakers

Maria Hristova (AUBG) Prof. Timothy Cleary (AUBG)

Description

Current computer users of every type have suddenly become imbued with a significant range of powerful software applications, the nature of which enables users to access “Chat” type interfaces providing creative responses and answers to a whole range of queries and tasks. These responses include a range of diverse solutions which includes various outcomes such as focussed reports, computer code, specific advice and mathematical solutions to mention a few. Such applications, which invariably fall under the moniker of Artificial Intelligence (AI), appear to have arrived with a certain panache in the business environment of the 2020s. It would also appear that such applications cannot be ignored. The reality is, the emergence of useful, user-friendly, cost-effective programs such as the multi-modal large language model ChatGPT and other similar offerings are generating shockwaves in the world of work.

Whilst some observers have expressed a certain reservation as to the quality of the output of some of these applications, the overall feedback is that the said outputs of such applications is, overall, simply astounding. Needless to say the sudden arrival of these applications and their subsequent impact has caused a certain storm. Professions and business of every type to are having to re-consider their business models and their associated way of doing things. Such upheaval has its own consequences and this has in turn generated a certain degree of apprehension. The reality of such apprehension and the subsequent turmoil that has occurred has even lead to calls for a halt on the further development of these intelligent language models by leading industrial figures. Furthermore, the use of these applications have even been banned at the national level as the applications have been deemed to have privacy implications the ramifications of which have yet to be determined.

However, despite such commotion it is suggested that it is possible to distil certain strategies wherein the users of such applications such as ChatGPT might be able to maximise the benefits of their deployment. It is further argued that the desire to reap such benefits is none so more than in the Balkans where, as with other parts of Europe, business is seeking not so much to avoid or shun such technology but to cognise the new paradigm wherein such technology may be harnessed to achieve critical goals.

To this end, it is suggested that there is a set of appropriate techniques wherein business users can employ certain strategies to achieve such an outcome. The purpose of this paper therefore is to collect and consider some of those various techniques which might be applied by businesses in the Balkans when using AI type applications such as the multi-modal large language model ChatGPT.

Key Words: Balkans, ChatGPT, multi-modal, AI

Title A Consideration of The New Spectre, Namely The Multi-modal Language Models, That is Haunting The Balkans and How Such Applications Can be Exploited by Modern Businesses

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Prof. Timothy Cleary (AUBG)

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