Chatbot & you
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence program whose developer yesterday announced a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn’t seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, Axios’ Erica Pandey, Dan Primack and Ina Fried report.
Why it matters: Most of us are only now getting a glimpse of just how smart artificial intelligence has become.
- When ChatGPT launched to the public, it proved to be much more advanced than even many in the tech industry had expected.
What’s next: The applications will get much more specific. As powerful as it is, ChatGPT and its art-generating peers are generic. The real power, many say, will come as businesses combine such AI tools with their own data, Ina and Axios’ Ashley Gold report.
- Also, regulation around the world will accelerate. Right now, there’s no AI-specific regulation in place in the U.S. For its part, Europe is working on an AI Act.
- Both the S. and Europe feel some urgencyto get on the same page about AI as China advances its own uses of the technology.
- “We can harness and regulate A.I. to create a more utopian society or risk having an unchecked, unregulated A.I. push us toward a more dystopian future,” wrote Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) in a New York Times op-ed Monday.
-What’s next for generative AI
For all the talk about the power of ChatGPT, Dall-E 2 and similar programs, the generative AI era is only at its inception. As part of today’s special Axios AM newsletter on the topic, Axios’ Ashley Gold and I outline what we’re keeping an eye on over the coming months.
Why it matters: The opportunities and fears about ChatGPT are all based largely on initial impressions of a technology that has yet to mature.
The applications will get much more specific. As powerful as it is, ChatGPT and its art-generating peers are generic. The real power, many say, will come as businesses combine such AI tools with their own data.
- A company like BMW would be able to merge real images of its logo and cars with the output of a tool like Dall-E to create commercials at a fraction of the cost.
- Or studios like Disney could apply generative technology to develop an endless array of sequels, spin-offs or games built around their existing universe of characters. Today’s AI couldn’t complete such projects, but it can provide endless shortcuts.
Regulation around the world will accelerate. Right now, there’s no AI-specific regulation in place in the U.S., despite increased attention from federal agencies, the White House and Congress.
- Europe is moving forward on an AI Act, but in an interview with Axios, European Parliament Member Eva Maydell said regulators are still working to identify the goals, and specific rules remain far off. The U.S. and Europe both feel some urgencyto get on the same page about AI as China advances its own uses of the technology.
- In the U.S. regulators and lawmakers have floated everything from regulating the use of algorithms, to a new agency to regulate AI, to using existing discrimination lawsto hold companies accountable.
- “We can harness and regulate A.I. to create a more utopian society or risk having an unchecked, unregulated A.I. push us toward a more dystopian future,” wrote Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) in a New York Times op-ed Monday.
The hype is going to get crazy. The excitement around ChatGPT and generative AI is real, but the tech industry loves to go overboard. With the tech economy in retreat, every struggling company and fledgling startup is eager to hop on a bandwagon.
- Already Axios’ inboxes (and every other newsrooms’) are filled with lookalike pitches pegged to the trend.
- Plus, ChatGPT itself can be used to generate more hype. That creates a greater need for smart journalists who can separate fact from fiction — assuming the technology hasn’t already put them out of work.
-ChatGPT does Smart Brevity
When I first asked ChatGPT to write in Axios Smart Brevity™, it came up short. But it turns out I just needed to give it more instructions.
Login reader Chris Pulsifer gave the chatbot a bit more direction, and in about 15 minutes he got the bot to write about itself in a pretty convincing emulation of our style. It’s a perfect example of what I talked about above: The combination of generative AI and a bit of customization can be a powerful combination.
Here’s what it came up with:
What’s new: ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI that has been trained on a dataset of over 8 million web pages. It is designed to generate human-like text that can be used to power a variety of natural language processing applications.
Why it matters: ChatGPT has the power to revolutionize the way we use natural language processing in our daily lives and workflows.
Its broad understanding of language allows it to generate relevant and informative text on a wide range of topics.
There was more, but it was repetitious, so my editor cut it down (something he also does with my copy).
What they’re saying: Pulsifer said he foresees a new industrial revolution spurred by the technology.
- “I anticipate a lot of heartache and lost jobs,” he said. “But we survived the previous reckonings, and we’ll survive this one, too. And I think it could reinvigorate our work and art, if we let it.”
Πηγή: axios.com
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-AI Influencers From the Post-ChatGPT Era
An unsurprising side-effect of ChatGPT going viral is that generative AI has become an attractor for people who care about it exclusively as a means to gain money, social media presence, or business opportunities: The new class of AI influencers.
Let me start by making it clear that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using what’s hot to grow a business. As the space of AI influencers grows, they give the field more visibility to people who would’ve never heard of it otherwise (as incredible as it sounds, most people are unaware of how AI is changing the world). That’s great—more people knowing about AI means fewer consequences due to ignorance.
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Πηγή: thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com
