How to Use ChatGPT and Stay a Good Person
This is a turning point for artificial intelligence, and we need to take advantage of these tools without harming ourselves or others.
The past few weeks have felt like a honeymoon phase for our relationship with AI-powered tools.
Many of us have pushed ChatGPT, a chatbot that can generate responses with surprisingly natural language, with tasks like writing stories about our pets, writing business proposals, and coding software.
At the same time, many uploaded selfies to Lensa AI, an app that uses algorithms to turn ordinary photos into artistic renderings. Both debuted a few weeks ago.
Like smartphones and social media when they first appeared, A.I. feels fun and exciting. Yet (and I'm sorry to be a buzzkill), as always with new technology, there will be downsides, painful lessons, and unintended consequences.
People experimenting with ChatGPT quickly realized they could use the tool to win coding contests. Teachers have already caught their students using the bot to plagiarize essays. And some women who uploaded their photos to Lensa received renders that felt sexualized and made them look skinnier, younger, or even naked.
We reached a turning with artificial intelligence, and now is a good time to pause and assess: how can we use these tools ethically and safely?
For years, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, which also use A.I., were the butt of jokes because they weren't particularly useful. But modern AI. is just good enough now that many people are seriously considering how to integrate the tools into their daily lives and pursuits.
"We are at the beginning of a broader societal transformation ", said Brian Christian, computer scientist and author of "The Alignment Problem", a book on the ethical concerns surrounding AI systems. "There is going to be a bigger question here for companies, but immediately, for the education system, what is the future of homework?"
With careful thought and consideration, we can leverage the intelligence of these tools without harming ourselves or harm others.
Understand the limitations (and consequences).First of all, it's important to understand how the technology works so you know exactly what you're doing with it. do.
ChatGPT is essential ment a more powerful and sophisticated version of the predictive text system on our phones, which suggests words to complete a sentence as we type using what it's learned from large amounts of data pulled from the web.
>It also can't check if what it says is true.
If you use a chatbot to code a program, it looks at how the code was compiled in the past. Because code is constantly updated to address security vulnerabilities, code written with a chatbot could be buggy or insecure, Christian said.
Similarly, if you're using ChatGPT to write an essay on a classic book, chances are the bot will construct seemingly plausible arguments. But if others have published an erroneous analysis of the book on the web, that may also show up in your essay. Whether...
This is a turning point for artificial intelligence, and we need to take advantage of these tools without harming ourselves or others.
The past few weeks have felt like a honeymoon phase for our relationship with AI-powered tools.
Many of us have pushed ChatGPT, a chatbot that can generate responses with surprisingly natural language, with tasks like writing stories about our pets, writing business proposals, and coding software.
At the same time, many uploaded selfies to Lensa AI, an app that uses algorithms to turn ordinary photos into artistic renderings. Both debuted a few weeks ago.
Like smartphones and social media when they first appeared, A.I. feels fun and exciting. Yet (and I'm sorry to be a buzzkill), as always with new technology, there will be downsides, painful lessons, and unintended consequences.
People experimenting with ChatGPT quickly realized they could use the tool to win coding contests. Teachers have already caught their students using the bot to plagiarize essays. And some women who uploaded their photos to Lensa received renders that felt sexualized and made them look skinnier, younger, or even naked.
We reached a turning with artificial intelligence, and now is a good time to pause and assess: how can we use these tools ethically and safely?
For years, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, which also use A.I., were the butt of jokes because they weren't particularly useful. But modern AI. is just good enough now that many people are seriously considering how to integrate the tools into their daily lives and pursuits.
"We are at the beginning of a broader societal transformation ", said Brian Christian, computer scientist and author of "The Alignment Problem", a book on the ethical concerns surrounding AI systems. "There is going to be a bigger question here for companies, but immediately, for the education system, what is the future of homework?"
With careful thought and consideration, we can leverage the intelligence of these tools without harming ourselves or harm others.
Understand the limitations (and consequences).First of all, it's important to understand how the technology works so you know exactly what you're doing with it. do.
ChatGPT is essential ment a more powerful and sophisticated version of the predictive text system on our phones, which suggests words to complete a sentence as we type using what it's learned from large amounts of data pulled from the web.
>It also can't check if what it says is true.
If you use a chatbot to code a program, it looks at how the code was compiled in the past. Because code is constantly updated to address security vulnerabilities, code written with a chatbot could be buggy or insecure, Christian said.
Similarly, if you're using ChatGPT to write an essay on a classic book, chances are the bot will construct seemingly plausible arguments. But if others have published an erroneous analysis of the book on the web, that may also show up in your essay. Whether...
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