Unless you happen to be living on a remote island or as a
recluse in the desert, you must be aware of the buzz created by ChatGPT since
the beginning of the year. Chances are you have even tried the system and seen
the magic-like tricks it does. And yes, viral is the word that best describes its
global effect.
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The AI-based free online tool can converse, begin a dialog,
and listen to your spoken or written requests and questions and then generate near-perfect
answers, essays, letters, emails, documentation, and text of any kind. Its
syntax, spelling, and grammar are flawless.
Just a few days after almost every human being on earth
heard about ChatGPT in early January, the servers of OpenAI, the company that
made the product, were flooded with requests by users, to the point that today
it is hard to get a reply from the system if one only has a free account. The
company is working on trying to meet the demand.
It would take too long to describe in detail the
capabilities of ChatGPT. Suffice to say that the AI tool has raised a serious alarm
in educational institutions at all levels — universities in particular — and
educators are extra-vigilant not to allow internet-connected devices of any
kind during live examinations to ensure the answers are actually being written
by the students and not by ChatGPT. As for controlling how homework is done,
there seems to be no real solution in sight.
AI advances
As extraordinary and futuristic as ChatGPT may be, it is just
another system brought to us by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the fact that
systems can now tap into the massive amount of digital information available in
the world and in the cloud. This is an essential ingredient in the AI recipe.
AI is being injected into most software applications, even in those that are less spectacular at first sight.
Dall-E 2 and Canvas, among others, took the world by storm
last year, with their ability to generate photo-realistic, customizable
landscapes, graphics, and artistic or architectural models almost instantly based
on a few descriptive words. Here, too, it was the raw power of AI that was at
the core of the systems.
Runway is another new AI-based tool that generates stunning animated
graphic contents, requesting very little input and effort from the user. Some
say it may create entire movies in the future, almost by itself.
AI is being injected into most software applications, even in
those that are less spectacular at first sight. This includes banking and
finance, for example, where the optimization of investments is being “advised”
by AI-based software. There is hardly a field that is not affected — positively,
most of the time.
Real risks
Self-driving vehicles are a particularly remarkable example
of AI application. This technology is supposed to, and it almost certainly will,
help avoid road accidents that human beings would not otherwise be able to
avoid.
AI-based systems are here to stay and will continue to evolve and expand, without a doubt.
But then again, if OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT themselves,
warn you that their system “may occasionally generate incorrect information”,
would you feel safe being in a self-driving car that “may occasionally go the
wrong way” and cause serious injuries? Or make a risky investment just because
an AI algorithm advised you to do so?
The
long-awaited robot age
AI is fascinating, this is a certainty. After about seven
decades of the traditional computing that started in the mid-1950s, we have
entered the age of intelligent computing, of robotics, that pundits, scientists,
and writers of science-fiction novels have been predicting and waiting for to
come true.
AI-based systems are here to stay and will continue to evolve
and expand, without a doubt. As limited and as imperfect as they may sometime be,
their weaknesses and their shortcomings will be less than those of human beings,
even if the consequences could sometime be tragic.
This story was contributed to Jordan News by a real human
writer, not by ChatGPT.
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