Is artificial intelligence taking over? Well, the latest “groundbreaking” AI chat bot, trained to interact with users with advanced abilities, is certainly creating quite a frenzy in the world of technology.
Known as ChatGPT and made by a company named OpenAIThe software is designed to generate human-like responses to a wide range of inputs using algorithms.
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“ChatGPT looks like a human,” Varun Maiya, CEO of software maker Avalon Labs, told Global News. “It’s just like a human except it has all the knowledge in the world.”
Users can ask the AI to write an essay, poem or script, or even translate or summarize text. It can also answer questions or solve coding problems on a wide variety of topics.
In addition, it remembers previous lessons so that users can ask follow-up questions in an interactive manner.
“It’s like the early era of the Internet, right in the 1990s where everybody’s like, ‘Is this a thing? “But now, of course, it is a thing. This is very important.
Helper, Friend or Doctor?
At some point, Maya says, everyone is going to use ChatGPT.
“I think eventually everyone is going to get used to it. Everyone has their own executive assistant, everyone has their own friend, everyone has their own therapist,” he said.
With its plethora of knowledge, ChatGPT can be practically anything the user makes of it – it can play the role of chef and provide the dishes, create business plans for marketers, press for public relations specialists. Can make communiques or give advice like a doctor.
“It’s definitely going to add a lot of value to the average person,” Maia said.
According to the OpenAI CEO, ChatGPT was launched on 30 November and by 5 December – less than a week later – it had already crossed one million users. Sam Altman,
Since then, the terms “ChatGPT” and “OpenAI” have become breakout searches on Google Trends in Canada and internationally.
The software is currently free as it sits in its research phase, though there are plans to charge eventually.
“We have to monetize it some way or the other; The cost of computation is eye-watering,” said Altman. online On 5 December.
‘It’s Coming for Everyone’
According to Maya, with ChatGPT’s current capabilities, it is “formidable” as an employee.
“Unfortunately, I see a lot of people losing their jobs. It’s coming for everyone,” he said. “The era of the creator is coming to an end. It’s going to be the era of the Idea Person and the Idea Person will is going to use magical tools and build things.
“No white-collar job is being spared, not even musicians,” Maya said, adding that it could be anything from content writing, architecture – to filling in for the CEO of a company.
“It gets scary.”
Software is not accurate all the time. It can write plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers, such as Told by its creator.
It also comes with the risk of users believing what they’re being told, even if it’s not true, according to Katrina Ingram, CEO of Ethically Aligned AI, a social enterprise that last year began consulting and educating companies on artificial intelligence. was committed to. ,
Katrina Ingram, CEO of Ethically Aligned AI.
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“People might think it’s really official and accurate, which it’s not,” he told Global News. “It can be really problematic.”
According to Ingram, ChatGPT is known as a “large language model”.
“This means that when you ask a question, the model is referencing this large body of written information to generate a response,” she said.
“Since it was trained on dialogue, the feedback it comes back sounds a lot more conversational. It’s like you’re talking to a person, not like you’re searching.”
“It feels like it’s very good at some things, in an almost terrifying way,” she said.
According to Ingram, with AI advancing at a rapid pace, ethical concerns also come into play.
When thinking about the ethics behind ChatGPT, the high cost of running the language model and its impact on climate change are something Ingram believes needs to be taken into consideration.
“Cost is a big factor. There’s a lot of computation going on behind these things. A lot of energy is consumed,” she said.
Last month, Meta also announced a new large language model AI software called Galactica that can “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge”.
Launched with a public online demo, the software only lasted three days before being disabled.
In addition to users noting that Galactica generated inaccurate or biased responses, it also had a tendency to generate hate speech.
Despite being disabled, the code for the model is still available for everyone to use.
Like ChatGTP, AI art has also taken over social media thanks to software like Lensa AI and DAL-E2.
As of December 6, Lensa AI was the top free iPhone app. Although the app costs nothing to download, users must pay a fee to access personalized AI images of themselves created by the technology.
The app uses artificial intelligence algorithms to edit and modify users’ photos to create “magic avatars” – a feature introduced last month. The process is governed by a model called steady diffusion.
As more and more users hopped on the trend, the app’s maker, Prisma Labs, hiked the prices on December 3 to keep up with demand.
“With the increased demand we are experiencing right now, the price increase was required to keep the service alive,” the company said. online,
“We thought it was better to live and work at a high price than cheap but barely able to work.”
Before Lensa AI became widely known online, another software, DAL-E2, created by OpenAI, was known for the digital images it could generate from text descriptions.
Although companies like Prisma Labs say they don’t believe AI-generated images will replace digital art, many artists say there is a danger.
To Gabriel Drolet, cartoonist living in The New Yorker MontrealThe AI art trend has been “tough with”.
As some say ChatGPT may have the potential to take away jobs, she said AI art may have the potential to take money from artists.
“I expect it won’t have a huge impact on the community, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did,” Drolet told Global News. “It’s scary and sad when you think about the painters whose work is being vandalized and who don’t make money because of it.
“People make their living from art and art is important.”
With Reuters files