New chatbots could change the world. Can you trust them?
Siri, Google Search, online marketing, and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the issue of misinformation.
This month Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his daughter 7 years old. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world's most ambitious A.I. labs.
He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used for, where black holes came from and why hens incubated their eggs. Each time, he replied in clear, well-punctuated prose. When she asked for a computer program that could predict the trajectory of a ball thrown through the air, she was also given that.
Over the next few days, Mr. Howard – a data scientist and professor whose work inspired the creation of ChatGPT and similar technologies – has come to see the chatbot as a new kind of personal tutor. He could teach his daughter math, science and English, not to mention a few other important lessons. Chief among them: don't believe everything you're told.
"It's a pleasure to watch her learn like this," he said. he declares. "But I also told him: don't trust everything it gives you. He can make mistakes. »
OpenAI is one of many companies, academic labs and independent researchers working to create more advanced chatbots. These systems can't exactly chat like a human, but they often seem to. They can also retrieve and repackage information at a speed humans never could. They can be thought of as digital assistants, like Siri or Alexa, which are better able to understand what you are looking for and give it to you.
After the release of ChatGPT - which has been used by over a million people - from many experts believe that these new chatbots are poised to reinvent or even replace Internet search engines like Google and Bing.
They can provide information in tight sentences, rather than long lists of blue links. They explain concepts in a way that people can understand them. And they can provide facts, while generating business plans, essay topics, and other new ideas from scratch.
"Now you have a computer that can answer any question in a way that makes sense to a human,” said Aaron Levie, chief executive of Silicon Valley company Box, and one of many executives exploring the how these chatbots are going to change the technology landscape." It can extrapolate and take ideas from different contexts and merge them."
New chatbots do it with what seems be full confidence. But they don't always tell the truth. Sometimes they even fail in simple math. They mix fact and fiction. And as they improve, people could use them to generate and spread untruths.
Google recently built a sy specifically for conversation, called LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications. This spring, a Google engineer
Siri, Google Search, online marketing, and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the issue of misinformation.
This month Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his daughter 7 years old. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world's most ambitious A.I. labs.
He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used for, where black holes came from and why hens incubated their eggs. Each time, he replied in clear, well-punctuated prose. When she asked for a computer program that could predict the trajectory of a ball thrown through the air, she was also given that.
Over the next few days, Mr. Howard – a data scientist and professor whose work inspired the creation of ChatGPT and similar technologies – has come to see the chatbot as a new kind of personal tutor. He could teach his daughter math, science and English, not to mention a few other important lessons. Chief among them: don't believe everything you're told.
"It's a pleasure to watch her learn like this," he said. he declares. "But I also told him: don't trust everything it gives you. He can make mistakes. »
OpenAI is one of many companies, academic labs and independent researchers working to create more advanced chatbots. These systems can't exactly chat like a human, but they often seem to. They can also retrieve and repackage information at a speed humans never could. They can be thought of as digital assistants, like Siri or Alexa, which are better able to understand what you are looking for and give it to you.
After the release of ChatGPT - which has been used by over a million people - from many experts believe that these new chatbots are poised to reinvent or even replace Internet search engines like Google and Bing.
They can provide information in tight sentences, rather than long lists of blue links. They explain concepts in a way that people can understand them. And they can provide facts, while generating business plans, essay topics, and other new ideas from scratch.
"Now you have a computer that can answer any question in a way that makes sense to a human,” said Aaron Levie, chief executive of Silicon Valley company Box, and one of many executives exploring the how these chatbots are going to change the technology landscape." It can extrapolate and take ideas from different contexts and merge them."
New chatbots do it with what seems be full confidence. But they don't always tell the truth. Sometimes they even fail in simple math. They mix fact and fiction. And as they improve, people could use them to generate and spread untruths.
Google recently built a sy specifically for conversation, called LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications. This spring, a Google engineer
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