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| ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it | ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it |
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| A new chatbot has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it says. | A new chatbot has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it says. |
| ChatGPT was publicly released on Wednesday by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. | ChatGPT was publicly released on Wednesday by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. |
| But the company warns it can produce problematic answers and exhibit biased behaviour. | But the company warns it can produce problematic answers and exhibit biased behaviour. |
| Open AI says it's "eager to collect user feedback to aid our ongoing work to improve this system". | Open AI says it's "eager to collect user feedback to aid our ongoing work to improve this system". |
| ChatGPT is the latest in a series of AIs which the firm refers to as GPTs, an acronym which stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. | ChatGPT is the latest in a series of AIs which the firm refers to as GPTs, an acronym which stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. |
| To develop the system, an early version was fine-tuned through conversations with human trainers. | To develop the system, an early version was fine-tuned through conversations with human trainers. |
| The system also learned from access to Twitter data according to a tweet from Elon Musk who is no longer part of OpenAI's board. The Twitter boss wrote that he had paused access "for now". | The system also learned from access to Twitter data according to a tweet from Elon Musk who is no longer part of OpenAI's board. The Twitter boss wrote that he had paused access "for now". |
| The results have impressed many who've tried out the chatbot. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman revealed the level of interest in the artificial conversationalist in a tweet. | The results have impressed many who've tried out the chatbot. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman revealed the level of interest in the artificial conversationalist in a tweet. |
| ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users! | ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users! |
| The project says the chat format allows the AI to answer "follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests" | The project says the chat format allows the AI to answer "follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests" |
| A journalist for technology news site Mashable who tried out ChatGPT reported it is hard to provoke the model into saying offensive things. | A journalist for technology news site Mashable who tried out ChatGPT reported it is hard to provoke the model into saying offensive things. |
| Mike Pearl wrote that in his own tests "its taboo avoidance system is pretty comprehensive". | Mike Pearl wrote that in his own tests "its taboo avoidance system is pretty comprehensive". |
| However, OpenAI warns that "ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers". | However, OpenAI warns that "ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers". |
| Training the model to be more cautious, says the firm, causes it to decline to answer questions that it can answer correctly. | Training the model to be more cautious, says the firm, causes it to decline to answer questions that it can answer correctly. |
| Why the rise of AI art stirs fierce debate | Why the rise of AI art stirs fierce debate |
| How human-like are the most sophisticated chatbots? | How human-like are the most sophisticated chatbots? |
| Google engineer says AI system may have feelings | Google engineer says AI system may have feelings |
| Briefly questioned by the BBC for this article, ChatGPT revealed itself to be a cautious interviewee capable of expressing itself clearly and accurately in English. | Briefly questioned by the BBC for this article, ChatGPT revealed itself to be a cautious interviewee capable of expressing itself clearly and accurately in English. |
| Did it think AI would take the jobs of human writers? No - it argued that "AI systems like myself can help writers by providing suggestions and ideas, but ultimately it is up to the human writer to create the final product". | Did it think AI would take the jobs of human writers? No - it argued that "AI systems like myself can help writers by providing suggestions and ideas, but ultimately it is up to the human writer to create the final product". |
| Asked what would be the social impact of AI systems such as itself, it said this was "hard to predict". | Asked what would be the social impact of AI systems such as itself, it said this was "hard to predict". |
| Had it been trained on Twitter data? It said it did not know. | Had it been trained on Twitter data? It said it did not know. |
| Only when the BBC asked a question about HAL, the malevolent fictional AI from the film 2001, did it seem troubled. | Only when the BBC asked a question about HAL, the malevolent fictional AI from the film 2001, did it seem troubled. |
| A question ChatGPT declined to answer - or maybe just a glitch | A question ChatGPT declined to answer - or maybe just a glitch |
| Although that was most likely just a random error - unsurprising perhaps, given the volume of interest. | Although that was most likely just a random error - unsurprising perhaps, given the volume of interest. |
| Its master's voice | Its master's voice |
| Other firms which opened conversational AIs to general use, found they could be persuaded to say offensive or disparaging things. | Other firms which opened conversational AIs to general use, found they could be persuaded to say offensive or disparaging things. |
| Many are trained on vast databases of text scraped from the internet, and consequently they learn from the worst as well as the best of human expression. | Many are trained on vast databases of text scraped from the internet, and consequently they learn from the worst as well as the best of human expression. |
| Meta's BlenderBot3 was highly critical of Mark Zuckerberg in a conversation with a BBC journalist. | Meta's BlenderBot3 was highly critical of Mark Zuckerberg in a conversation with a BBC journalist. |
| In 2016, Microsoft apologised after an experimental AI Twitter bot called "Tay" said offensive things on the platform. | In 2016, Microsoft apologised after an experimental AI Twitter bot called "Tay" said offensive things on the platform. |
| And others have found that sometimes success in creating a convincing computer conversationalist brings unexpected problems. | And others have found that sometimes success in creating a convincing computer conversationalist brings unexpected problems. |
| Google's Lamda was so plausible that a now-former employee concluded it was sentient, and deserving of the rights due to a thinking, feeling, being, including the right not to be used in experiments against its will. | Google's Lamda was so plausible that a now-former employee concluded it was sentient, and deserving of the rights due to a thinking, feeling, being, including the right not to be used in experiments against its will. |
| Jobs threat | Jobs threat |
| ChatGPT's ability to answer questions caused some users to wonder if it might replace Google. | ChatGPT's ability to answer questions caused some users to wonder if it might replace Google. |
| Others asked if journalists' jobs were at risk. Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge". | Others asked if journalists' jobs were at risk. Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge". |
| ChatGPT proves my greatest fears about AI and journalism - not that bona fide journalists will be replaced in their work - but that these capabilities will be used by bad actors to autogenerate the most astounding amount of misleading bilge, smothering reality | ChatGPT proves my greatest fears about AI and journalism - not that bona fide journalists will be replaced in their work - but that these capabilities will be used by bad actors to autogenerate the most astounding amount of misleading bilge, smothering reality |
| One question-and-answer site has already had to curb a flood of AI-generated answers. | One question-and-answer site has already had to curb a flood of AI-generated answers. |
| Others invited ChatGPT to speculate on AI's impact on the media. | Others invited ChatGPT to speculate on AI's impact on the media. |
| How about that. chatGPT's advice to journalists. pic.twitter.com/d6By4Tpnzx | How about that. chatGPT's advice to journalists. pic.twitter.com/d6By4Tpnzx |
| General purpose AI systems, like ChatGPT and others, raise a number of ethical and societal risks, according to Carly Kind of the Ada Lovelace Institute. | General purpose AI systems, like ChatGPT and others, raise a number of ethical and societal risks, according to Carly Kind of the Ada Lovelace Institute. |
| Among the potential problems of concern to Ms Kind are that AI might perpetuate disinformation, or "disrupt existing institutions and services - ChatGDT might be able to write a passable job application, school essay or grant application, for example". | Among the potential problems of concern to Ms Kind are that AI might perpetuate disinformation, or "disrupt existing institutions and services - ChatGDT might be able to write a passable job application, school essay or grant application, for example". |
| There are also, she said, questions around copyright infringement "and there are also privacy concerns, given that these systems often incorporate data that is unethically collected from internet users". | There are also, she said, questions around copyright infringement "and there are also privacy concerns, given that these systems often incorporate data that is unethically collected from internet users". |
| However, she said they may also deliver "interesting and as-yet-unknown societal benefits". | However, she said they may also deliver "interesting and as-yet-unknown societal benefits". |
| ChatGPT learns from human interactions, and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman tweeted that those working in the field also have much to learn. | ChatGPT learns from human interactions, and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman tweeted that those working in the field also have much to learn. |
| AI has a "long way to go, and big ideas yet to discover. We will stumble along the way, and learn a lot from contact with reality. | AI has a "long way to go, and big ideas yet to discover. We will stumble along the way, and learn a lot from contact with reality. |
| "It will sometimes be messy. We will sometimes make really bad decisions, we will sometimes have moments of transcendent progress and value," he wrote. | "It will sometimes be messy. We will sometimes make really bad decisions, we will sometimes have moments of transcendent progress and value," he wrote. |
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| Artificial intelligence |