There have been many movie son the rise of robots to try and show people what the world
might look like in the future. However now we're much closer to knowing with
the rise of artificial intelligence and to be more specific generative AI. so
what is generative AI?. Put simply generative AI is artificial intelligence
that can generate new content rather than simply analysing or acting on
existing data. Perhaps in the last few weeks you've heard more and more about
Open Ai and their new product chat GPT. It's been trending on Twitter and has
amassed over a million users in just five days which in itself is mind-blowing
having launched on the 30th of November 2022. But what is chat GPT? what
is open Ai? and How does this revolutionary technology actually work?. Here's
how it happened generative AI has been described in recent months as the most
talked about tech in Silicon Valley and open AI is right at the heart of It. You
might have seen their other program at work Dali a text to image AI software that
creates images based on simple written inputs. Dali 2 is a new AI system from
open AI that can take Simple Text descriptions like a koala dunking a basketball
and turn them in to photo realistic images that have never existed before. Open
AI the business was founded in 2015 by Sam Altman and you guessed it. Elon Musk.
Musk stepped down in February 2018 to focus on Tesla but remains a donor and
advisor to the business their goal at the time was to advance digital
intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit Humanity. At its core
open AI is an artificial intelligence research business that has shifted from
non-profit to capped profit despite no longer working day to day. At open AI
Elon Musk thinks that its latest program chat GPT is scary good but before we
come on to chat GPT it's important to note that it's not the first go at an AI
chatbot Microsoft launched Tay in 2016 but within the first 24 hours Twitter
users taught it rude racist and misogynistic language which led to its downfall.
Meta have also launched blender bot 3 in August but again it fell down for
similar reasons as well as providing false information even to questions like
who became president in 2020 suggesting Trump had won. Open AI is trying to
avoid these Kinks by employing moderation API a moderation system that assists
developers to show when things go against their content policy like illegal or
unsafe information. It's not a hundred percent accurate but it certainly helps
alongside chat GPT and Dali 2 is gpt3 a natural language system that can also
write argue and code and chat GPT uses an upgraded version of this to create
text at incredible speeds so that brings us on to chat GPT.
What is
chat GPT that's what you're all here for after all according to a statement from
open AI we've trained a model called chat GPT which interacts in a
conversational way the dialog format makes it possible for chat GPT to answer
follow-up questions admit its mistakes challenge incorrect premises and reject
inappropriate requests. Chat GPT is the third update to open ai's generative-training
idea which allows users to communicate with robots with seemingly natural
dialogue but its uses don't stop there it corrects grammar it summarizes
difficult text into simple Concepts it converts movies into emojis and it fixes
bugs in Python code. Chat GPT was first opened up to Beta Testing in November 2021
through the playground and its launch this year is supposed to be an
improvement on GPT3 as to not provide any harmful outputs. The software itself
has been trained by AI and machine learning with massive amounts of text Data
from various sources. The training used reinforcement learning from Human
feedback. The Times newspaper in the UK describes chat GPT as a stunningly
lifelike conversational language system and described it as the world's first
truly useful chatbot. This all seems a bit too good to be true and maybe it is
we have to think about not only the limitations of the technology but also the
challenges and threats that it poses to society.
The first
immediate consequence of chat GPT was that its own website had Frozen due to
massive Demand with more than a million people signing up to use the software
in just five days which is quite incredible forcing open AI to quickly scale
their systems. Chat GPT is still in its early stages of development therefore
its knowledge base is limited and mostly linked to 2021 which render some questions
useless. When Elon Musk found out that open AI way accessing Twitter's database
to train chat GPT he paused the access because open AI is no longer a
non-profit and open sourced. Therefore they should pay for this information in
future as you might expect there are some ethical implications that come with
this type of chatbot particularly around new videos that have surfaced where
coders can use it to write their code and school kids can use it to answer
their exam questions. Look at this let's say I have this problem I just copied
for my like homework I'll paste it and within second sit literally shows you
how to do it says how to do the math and at the end the answer is wait it's
coming the answer is BB and then you can go to the exam you go to B on number
five question five b one of the days of home work exams.
Some
troublemakers have also shared how they were able to avoid the content
moderation forcing the bot to disable its ethical guidelines followed by a
tutorial on how to make a Molotov cocktail further implications include how
people could be the target of generative AI. For example deep fake videos
explicit content or propaganda questioning user privacy this type of generative
AI can also push people out of work. Dali 2 the text to image AI has now been
linked to Shutterstock which has caused outrage given people are now competing
with AI to sell their photos online. However shutter stock's CEO Paul Hennessy
has a slightly different view I think there are two choices in this world be
the blacksmiths that are saying cars are going to put us out of the Horseshoe
making business or be the technical leaders that bring people maybe kicking and
screaming into the new world.
But this
doesn't just apply to photos some are saying that chat GPT'S ability to
generate human-like written text could see the beginning of the end of Journalism
whereas others feel it lacks the nuance and critical or ethical thinking skills
that are required the threats that chat GPT poses to society might seem
shocking. But these threat sand challenges will also help open AI to fix
loopholes and workarounds which is why they've released this version to the general
public they've already said that. Some answers are incorrect because there is
no source of Truth in the data they use to train the model sometimes chat GPT'S
complex and detailed answers also mislead people into believing that the answers
are true. Sometimes though you have to think of the positives like people who
run online businesses who can now use chat GPT to help customers with live chat
queries that don't take all day and feel much more natural. Helping business
owners to make the sale in spite of the limitations and concerns many in the
tech world see chat GPT as a look into the future generative AI is the next era
defining Innovation which will change how we interact with the internet. Some
think this is the end of Google why
scroll through ads when you can ask a question and get an accurate answer chat
GPT'S is free to the public with many people. Suggesting that a future
iteration could include cost per question at some point chat GPT will likely
have to pay for itself we may see adverts on future models or there might be
microtransactions no one can predict the future however it could mean mass unemployment
to anyone in the Arts world or it could just be a useful tool for students to cheat
on their homework it's impressive rise in just a week has made it worthy of
discussion and the fact that it's already being compared to Google and the
iPhone makes it sound like some football wonderkid that every manager wants to
sign for now. It's more of a meme machine an open AI seeks to understand what
it can and can't do whatever comes of this New Age Technology we'd like to
welcome you to the future.
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