![]() And then we have even more catastrophically-minded folk who worry that AIs such as ChatGPT might be on the way to being a “God-like” super-powerful “AGI”, an artificial general intelligence that can actually think, and whose intentions we can’t predict.Ī recent open letter from an organisation called the Future of Life Institute was signed by more than 1,000 businesspeople and scientists, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Tesla boss Elon Musk. ![]() This suggests there will need to be huge shifts in how we run our societies. A recent Goldman Sachs report said that 300 million jobs are vulnerable to AI automation. There are AI models that specialise in all kinds of activities from medical diagnoses, financial analysis to visual art. I ask it to write a song in the style of Kurt Cobain (“Hey, hey, I don’t know what to say, Life’s just a game we all have to play”) and a poem “in the style of WB Yeats” (it just posts the entirety of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, then apologises for plagiarism when challenged).ĬhatGPT is not alone out there. I refuse to give it hints about what I like and it suggests Paulo Coelho’s the Alchemist (must be its favourite). It refers to itself as “I” and says things like “I understand why you might feel that way” when I tell it that I’m creeped out by the fact it uses “I”. You can go to it, type in any question or ask it to perform tasks (“write a poem about X” or “write me an essay on Y”) and it will provide coherent text on the subject. They’ve all been working on them.ĬhatGPT is way ahead of where many experts expected AI to be at this point in its grammatical and syntactical fluency (its fourth iteration, GPT4, came out in March). The public release of ChatGPT late last year, and the news that OpenAI, at one point a non-profit company, had been purchased by Microsoft, triggered panic among the other tech giants who rushed to release their own large language models. ChatGPT apologises a lot, which makes me feel weird. ![]() When I told it this was wrong it apologised and had another go. It said I presented The Late Late Show, that I had written a book I hadn’t written, and had won an award I hadn’t won. I first asked it to tell me about myself (this is the AI equivalent of googling yourself, and should bring shame). Recently I’ve been communicating a lot with ChatGPT, the text-generating artificial intelligence chatbot created by OpenAI.
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