SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Artificial intelligence is growing in Utah. From government policy to education, AI is finding its way into all aspects of life.
One Utah entrepreneur used AI to build himself a six-figure business in just a few days.
Jon Cheney woke up one day and decided to challenge himself to build a profitable business in a day.
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It took him a day or two longer than that, but he said he was able to get “GenAIPI” up and running and had a paying contract in just a few days.
“I thought, ‘I need to build something where I can maybe help teach people [about AI],’” Cheney said.
Cheney said AI is going to impact just about every industry, so he created a way for businesses to check how much their employees know about it and then teaches them how to use it.
He said it took him five days from coming up with GenAIPI to making a profit.
“I found someone who agreed to get on a call, we had that call, and we had a $15,000 contract lined up ready to go,” Cheney said.
Cheney likes to create, whether it be music or a business.
But an award-winning business like his last one took nearly a decade and millions of dollars to build.
“AI has definitely grown enormously in a very short span of time,” said Hope Fagler, a strategic team lead at Utah Valley University.
Fagler leads a team that studies emerging tech at UVU.
2News asked her if there are any safety concerns when it comes to AI.
“Artificial intelligence is really good at some things, and really not good at other things,” she said.
Fager said it’s about making sure you find where AI can be useful, which is something Cheney agrees on.
“If you try to use it like Google and you don’t actually learn how to put guard rails around it and tell it what you want,” he said.
Fager said there are still some things about AI to keep an eye on.
She said “short-term help versus long-term hurt” is going to be interesting to see in the future.
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