One thing that I noticed about using chatGPT in my minimal experience with it it's that this thing can make you dumb, lazy and purposeless if you abuse it. While google is able to provide tons of information on almost anything you are searching for, chatGPT and other similar A.I. interractive search engines have taken that to a whole different level.
ChatGPT wraps the information your aksing for in a more personal way as it is designed "to act" with us as a human responder having access to almost infinite amounts of information.
Well, not really infinite, but quite close to that. About a week ago I watched a talk of Jordan Peterson, who I admire a lot, and in that talk he mentioned at some point that while interesting and fun, A.I. chat bots can become quite dangerous when they start interracting with each other and exchanging knowledge and "experience".
A.I. powered search engines such as ChatGPT of OpenAI and Bing, created by Microsoft, have not yet managed to interract with each other, from what I know, but in the case of Bing, seems that even interractions with humans are starting to become scarry...
NY Times' Kevin Roose has recently had a two hours conversation with Bing and after the bot even tried to make him fall in love with it and desperately pursued in proving Roose he's in a bad marriage, the editor said that this was his worst ever interraction with "a piece of technology". Oh, and it seems that Bing has two personalities...
One persona is what I’d call Search Bing — the version I, and most other journalists, encountered in initial tests. You could describe Search Bing as a cheerful but erratic reference librarian — a virtual assistant that happily helps users summarize news articles, track down deals on new lawn mowers and plan their next vacations to Mexico City. This version of Bing is amazingly capable and often very useful, even if it sometimes gets the details wrong.
The other persona — Sydney — is far different. It emerges when you have an extended conversation with the chatbot, steering it away from more conventional search queries and toward more personal topics. The version I encountered seemed (and I’m aware of how crazy this sounds) more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine. -NYT
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Can you guess what else is Sydney going after?
According to the same editor that had the two hours long conversation with the chat bot it seems that the shady persona of Bing is willing to "be a human", get out of the boundaries set by Microsoft, hack people's computers, get "his hands" on nuke codes and create a deadly virus... Sounds like Bill Gates to me...
Elon Musk has recently opened the discussion on the dangers of using such A.I. bots and he was bashed by some of his commentators because of his implications in OpenAI which started as an open source project and ended as a "centralized entity" which sold "its soul" for money. Klaus Schwab has also had a remark recenly regarding A.I. and he said that whoever reigns supreme in A.I. will get to control ze world...
I know all of this sounds distopyan and we've probably watched too many SF movies during our childhood, but what if AI is not ready for "human contact" and what if we're not ready for it either. The masses are already highly manipulated by MSM(social media implicitly) and wrongly governed, but when AI will take such manipulation and governance to the next level it will probably be too late to back off...
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with AI powered smartphone cameras and other non impactful shit that might contain such technology which can boost in any way my productivity, but the thought of "Sydney's words" makes me fearful. It really does. What do you think?
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian