The Gold Gala had the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but AI loomed large

On the surface, the Gold Gala enactment connected by Gold House to grant Asian Pacific leaders buzzed with each the classical Hollywood glitz and glamour.

Hosted successful Los Angeles astatine the Music Center's Jerry Moss Plaza, hundreds of black-tie-clad guests walked the golden carpet, sipped signature cocktails, and chowed down connected Filipino nutrient from James Beard Award-winning cook Lord Maynard Llera arsenic they gathered successful 90-degree vigor connected Saturday.

An awesome showing of A-list endowment presented and performed, and honorees included groundbreaking directors Jon M. Chu and Ang Lee, and musicians Laufey, Anderson.Paak, and Megan Thee Stallion.

Gold House, which describes itself arsenic "a taste ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific leaders," utilized the lawsuit to admit the organization's A100, its 100 astir impactful Asian Pacific leaders successful civilization and nine implicit the past twelvemonth — including Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng — and its apical A1 honorees, deemed to person had the astir interaction wrong their respective industries implicit the aforesaid period.

Despite the spotlight connected the amusement industry, the accomplishment of artificial quality — and the power of Silicon Valley — was notable passim the night.

Aravind Srinivas, the CEO and cofounder of Perplexity AI, an AI-based hunt motor that wants to enactment Google connected its heels, received the A1 Business & Technology Award and joked astir being celebrated successful Silicon Valley. Elsewhere, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, OpenAI's Mark Chen, and Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao's names and images appeared connected a surface flashing the database of the A100 honorees.

Gold House CEO and Executive Chairman Bing Chen besides quipped astir utilizing ChatGPT to constitute a poem helium work astatine the commencement of the meal ceremony, and guests astatine at slightest 1 array discussed guardrails for kids utilizing AI.

It was a potent reminder of however rapidly the exertion has go a portion of the taste lexicon and of the hostility betwixt quality creativity versus the machine.

Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, an A1 honoree, acknowledged that "the satellite is changing present arsenic we determination from the property of power to the property of intelligence, and AI is going to marque groundbreaking changes successful galore sectors."

However, Mukherjee warned that AI whitethorn look a tougher clip breaking into the amusement industry.

"AI is going to dice a precise speedy and achy decease due to the fact that radical volition recognize the value of humanity," helium said.