If you have not heard about ChatGPT in the past months, I do not know what rock you have been living under.
What is this AI tool that is making the headlines everywhere?
ChatGPT - Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code.
The potential of this tool is quite frankly endless. And so are its downsides.
Professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson recently issued a cautionary statement regarding the possible effects of AI and the language processing model ChatGPT on society. He points out that ChatGPT, which was just recently released, is an advanced AI system that can examine a vast corpus of literature and produce grammatically flawless and philosophically interesting written content.
Undoubtedly, it has its uses, but it also has its drawbacks. Writing and thinking skills can be acquired together. If you give the algorithms control over your writing, they will also have control over your thinking.
Are we going to witness a generation of people who are utterly incapable of free thought if ChatGPT and similar platforms become popular? Those who are only capable of conceptualizing the fundamentals and who must rely on an algorithm to arrange them into sophisticated ideas?
But it gets more interesting!
Several weeks after OpenAI released ChatGPT, Google responded by releasing Google Bard.
The murderer of ChatGPT. The Google Bard AI chatbot can react to text-based inquiries by using a group of deep learning algorithms referred to as "big language models." The LaMDA-based chatbot is developed to use the web to get the most "current" solutions to queries. Google's Bard AI is an experimental conversational AI service that gains knowledge via interacting with people.
Google, being afraid that OpenAI is taking over the AI market released Google Bard, not only as an alternative, but in my speculation, as an improvement. However, this did not end well.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after Google Bard produced a factual error in its first demo.
An accompanying GIF prompts Bard with the question, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?" The chatbot responds with a few bullet points, including the claim that the telescope took the very first pictures of "exoplanets," or planets outside of earth's solar system.
"These discoveries can spark a child's imagination about the infinite wonders of the universe," Bard says.
But the James Webb Telescope didn't discover exoplanets. The European Southern Observatory's very large telescope took the first pictures of those special celestial bodies in 2004, a fact that NASA confirms.
Can AI make mistakes? What if this was something someone’s life depended on? Can we truly rely on AI to make better decisions for us as we move forward.
Its definitely interesting where this war is going.
In the bullish aggression that is the competition between tech monopolies fighting to take over the market, it is worth understanding that some parties are willing to play dirty to win the game. In fact, most of them already are.
Where is this going to end? Will it end?
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