The Great AI Debate
OK, folks. We’re taking a step back from our usual HubSpot and inbound fare this week to talk about a topic that has had tongues a-waggin’ for the past few months — ChatGPT and the future of our lives with artificial intelligence now becoming rapidly more prevalent.
Are language learning models like ChatGPT and artificial intelligence the best thing ever, or is it going to rock our collective worlds in the worst way possible? It depends on who you ask. Here are some of the predictions and hot takes that have been flying off the presses recently:
- Predicting stocks and public opinion all potentially possible with ChatGPT-like models
- ChatGPT will lower the barrier to entry for cyber crime
- Can ChatGPT predict what will happen with banks?
- Will ChatGPT take all of our jobs? Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs lost
But in this episode, Liz shared this pretty rockstar quote from the Atlantic about the crazy predictions we’re seeing come out — and, more importantly, how at least a meaningful number of them will likely end up being wrong:
“Imagine somebody showing you a picture of a tadpole-like embryo at 10 days, telling you the organism was growing exponentially, and asking you to predict the species. Is it a frog? Is it a dog? A woolly mammoth? A human being? Is it none of those things? Is it a species we’ve never classified before? Is it an alien? You have no way of knowing. All you know is that this thing is larval and it might become anything. To me, that’s generative AI. This thing is larval. And it might become anything.”
And that’s why we’re having this discussion today.
Because while the future of AI and ChatGPT-like solutions may still be murky, at best, to discern, this is still a conversation we need to be having as business owners, marketers, sales pros or anyone involved in the success and growth of organizations.
Here's what we cover in this episode ...
- What excites us about this conversation about AI, and what has us very concerned?
- What are the good things we've seen so far? (Spoiler alert, we love some of the early adoption and creativity!)
- What are the biggest concerns and potential inbound implications we need to think about? And why did Liz's concern cause her to literally stand up for the first time ever to deliver a rant?
- What are the ethical considerations we need to think about with AI and tools like ChatGPT?
- What do you, our HubHeroes audience, need to start doing right now?
And that's only the beginning ...
Creators and Guests
Host
Devyn Bellamy
Devyn Bellamy works at HubSpot. He works in the partner enablement department. He helps HubSpot partners and HubSpot solutions partners grow better with HubSpot. Before that Devyn was in the partner program himself, and he's done Hubspot onboardings, Inbound strategy, and built out who knows how many HubSpot, CMS websites. A fun fact about Devyn Bellamy is that he used to teach Kung Fu.
Host
George B. Thomas
George B. Thomas is the HubSpot Helper and owner at George B. Thomas, LLC and has been doing inbound and HubSpot since 2012. He's been training, doing onboarding, and implementing HubSpot, for over 10 years. George's office, mic, and on any given day, his clothing is orange. George is also a certified HubSpot trainer, Onboarding specialist, and student of business strategies. To say that George loves HubSpot and the people that use HubSpot is probably a massive understatement. A fun fact about George B. Thomas is that he loves peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.
Host
Liz Murphy
Liz Murphy is a business content strategist and brand messaging therapist for growth-oriented, purpose-driven companies, organizations, and industry visionaries. With close to a decade of experience across a wide range of industries – healthcare, government contracting, ad tech, RevOps, insurance, enterprise technology solutions, and others – Liz is who leaders call to address nuanced challenges in brand messaging, brand voice, content strategy, content operations, and brand storytelling that sells.
Host
Max Cohen
Max Cohen is currently a Senior Solutions Engineer at HubSpot. Max has been working at HubSpot for around six and a half-ish years. While working at HubSpot Max has done customer onboarding, learning, and development as a product trainer, and now he's on the HubSpot sales team. Max loves having awesome conversations with customers and reps about HubSpot and all its possibilities to enable company growth. Max also creates a lot of content around inbound, marketing, sales, HubSpot, and other nerdy topics on TikTok. A fun fact about Max Cohen is that outside of HubSpot and inbound and beyond being a dad of two wonderful daughters he has played and coached competitive paintball since he was 15 years old.
