Every news outlet and their mother is writing articles about AI breaking news in a frenzy. “ChatGPT lies”; “ChatGPT says it will attack humans”; “ChatGPT is good at physics (replace with law, math, poems)”.
For crying out loud, people, it’s a bloody software language engine that automatically adds one letter after the other based on a prediction algorythm and the query provided. It is not ready to be used in real life as an intelligent companion of some sorts. In the ’90s, we played with Microsoft’s speech recognition, training it to launch programs when we spoke “Computer, start Word”. Whilst ChatGPT is miles away from that, remember that it is NOT much more different.
AI isn’t “a threat” to humanity! The humans behind it are, if they prove to be idiotic enough to think they can build conscience into a machine.
There’s a more significant and persistent threat: greedy humans and human groups who can’t wait to get their hands on anything that can help them make more money easier. In the process, they push an underperforming, inadequate algorithm presented to us as artificial intelligence, when it’s nothing but a glorified, super-complex “if-this-then-that” tool.
Additionally, believing there is a glimpse of conscience behind an answer received from these tools means you’re delusional, and a threat to yourself!
“AI breaking news – ChatGPT lies” – what a crock of s**t! Journalistic sensationalism, because… why not? Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and wave their hand, introducing false of wrong ideas. This is how we end up with another way to push the society in the wrong direction. Rather than cooperate and refine these tools for their real potential, we develop yet another tool to produce garbage, in the pursuit of wealth. Just look at what a good job we did with the internet, once Google got their business model right. For decades we generated rubbish content, in the hope the big G will take our websites to the people. Then we started paying to get it done, and more rubbish got created.
We are not good at this, people!
Our brain’s neural networks have evolved through billions of years of survival and adaptation to environmental factors. Self-awareness, empathy and understanding of the environment, conscience and intelligence are a result of that evolution. To think we may replicate that on com,puters is simply bonkers.
We will only have artificial intelligence once we build computing systems that can take a similar, artificially created path of evolution. Which would be monumentally WRONG. For now, even the greatest training combined with huge compute resources will only give us… automation. Yes, that automation may look like superhuman intelligence, but let’s face it: from the day we invented the abacus, our tools have been better than us – more precise, faster and more accurate. Why would we consider the so-called AI more than what it is: A TOOL.
Until there is a major shift in our philosophy around computers and technology, we will only build better and better algorithms that trigger a set of words (or automation events) based on the input. That’s not intelligence, it’s cognitive automation and not worth it of being AI breaking news.
And, yes, cognitive automation can be dangerous to humankind. That’s because it can be set on a path of mindless destruction by its USERS. Because it is limited, but people think it can do more.
So, calm down, take a glass of water and stop going nuts about ChatGPT. It’s just a great new toy.
By the way, did I tell you how software companies have a habit of releasing unprepared software full of bugs and getting the debugging for free? LMAO.
AI breaking news… really???
