Student: Taylor Belknap
Advisor: Felicia Soskin
The concern with artificial intelligence continues to grow more urgent each year, with many workers in creative industries fearing their jobs’ eventual redundancy. A GPT, or Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence capable of producing text in response to a prompt. Currently, it can perform tasks such as translating languages, generating short stories, and writing essays. With time, the technology could easily push humans out of these jobs, making it of utmost importance that those in power educate themselves and address the issue where need be. This presentation defines what exactly A.I. is, how it may go on to affect the publishing industry, and how people can prepare themselves before it advances further.