{"id":9189,"date":"2023-03-04T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/misplaced-fears-of-an-evil-chatgpt-obscure-the-real-harm-being-done-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T15:37:52","slug":"misplaced-fears-of-an-evil-chatgpt-obscure-the-real-harm-being-done-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/misplaced-fears-of-an-evil-chatgpt-obscure-the-real-harm-being-done-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced fears of an \u2018evil\u2019 ChatGPT obscure the real harm being done | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft \u2013 let\u2019s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage<\/p>\n

On 14 February, Kevin Roose, the New York Times<\/em> tech columnist, had a two-hour conversation with Bing, Microsoft\u2019s ChatGPT-enhanced search engine. He emerged from the experience an apparently changed man, because the chatbot had told him, among other things, that it would like to be human, that it harboured destructive desires and was in love with him.<\/p>\n

The transcript of the conversation<\/a>, together with Roose\u2019s appearance on the paper\u2019s The Daily<\/a><\/em> podcast, immediately ratcheted up the moral panic already raging about the implications of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 (which apparently underpins Bing) and other \u201cgenerative AI\u201d tools that are now loose in the world. These are variously seen as chronically untrustworthy artefacts, as examples of technology that is out of control or as precursors of so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 ie human-level intelligence \u2013 and therefore posing an existential threat<\/a> to humanity.<\/p>\n

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\nOur tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft \u2013 let\u2019s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage
\nOn 14 February, Kevin Roose, the New York Times tech columnist, had a two-hour conversation with Bing, Microsoft\u2019s ChatGPT-enhanced search engine. He emerged from the experience an apparently changed man, because the chatbot had told him, among other things, that it would like to be human, that it harboured destructive desires and was in love with him.
\nThe transcript of the conversation, together with Roose\u2019s appearance on the paper\u2019s The Daily podcast, immediately ratcheted up the moral panic already raging about the implications of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 (which apparently underpins Bing) and other \u201cgenerative AI\u201d tools that are now loose in the world. These are variously seen as chronically untrustworthy artefacts, as examples of technology that is out of control or as precursors of so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 ie human-level intelligence \u2013 and therefore posing an existential threat to humanity. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft \u2013 let\u2019s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage On 14 February, Kevin Roose, the New York Times tech columnist, had a two-hour conversation with Bing, Microsoft\u2019s ChatGPT-enhanced search engine. He emerged from the experience an apparently changed man, because the chatbot had told …<\/p>\n

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