You may find that fascinating or frightening, or maybe a little of both.
It’s all too easy to fall into sci-fi tropes and to project personhood when it isn’t there.
The sentiment was clear: Be prudent.
Since then, there’s been a rush of Big Tech companies looking to capitalize on that breakthrough.
Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollarexpanded partnership with OpenAIto bring ChatGPT tech toits Bing search.
People then can fall prey to biases in that information and may not understand when it’s incomplete.
The tech can sometimesconfidently present incorrect information as true, referred to ashallucinations.
We’ve already seen what happens when people prematurely assign awareness within machines.
His proclamation was quickly met with imagination-grabbing headlines and derision fromAI experts, describing it as “nonsense.”
“And it sure as hell doesn’t mean that these systems are sentient.”
Google fired Lemoinea month later for sharing internal information.
What we’re getting wrong
For Carmel, people have been conflating sentience with intelligence.
And consciousness takes it a step further, having a level of self-awareness.
He pointed to journalists using words like “lobotomized” to describe changes to an AI’s code.
“It gives people the wrong idea of what’s actually happening.
And it makes the developer’s job so much more difficult too.”
ChatGPT didn’t even come close.
The team at Wunderman Thompson wants researchers to embed ethics into AI early on.
That’s the essence of good non-AI-generated writing.
“That’s the magic of art and music and literature,” said Barsan.
“It’s a human experience.
