ChatGPT Guinea Pig Section

[A Guinea Pig]

Is anyone else a bit scared of what AI is still yet to bring? Imagine in the future people can just ask ChatGPT the same thing they would ask here to get an answer in-depth. They have a new thing where you can get different GPTs which are supposedly experts in that certain topic. They will get better the more people use them hence the machine learning. What is everyone’s thought on this?

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

That’s a big question! Even the AI experts argue it’s unsettling. If the machine learns from a reliable source (eg. AI use in X-ray diagnostics) then it’s got to be a good thing. I was in IT for many years and we were using basic AI capabilities for good use. But with the amount of disinformation now circulating and the fact that many are now so used to online ‘influence’, they may not even think to challenge the veracity of the content. It reminds me of one of the first chatbots on Twitter (I think it was a Microsoft test bot) which was swiftly removed after Twitter users realised that bombarding it with racist and offensive tweets would turn it into a racist and offensive chatbot. Mind you, even ‘human’ generated content can be dubious whether online or even offline neighbourly advice/gossip. I like to hope that human beings are still intelligent enough to find legitimate and authoritative sources for news/opinion/advice but then I’m from a pre social media generation.

 

[Ramia]

I wrote a paper on chatgpt for school and one concern is it's made by white males. Not only that but it doesn't understand how we think of understanding. When tasked to label men and women it could reliably label white men and women but it could not tell the difference between black men and women. So they sent it to Africa to train. Turns out it didn't really understand men vs women except it was picking out women because they were wearing makeup. Black women wear less makeup so it was labelling them as men.

For my paper I asked chatgpt to write a poem. It was just terrible. Full of cliches and really dumb. I also asked it if mathematics was empirical. It has some pretty good arguments but it didn't sway my opinion because I think math is metaphysical. It seemed to just take the majority opinion on the subject.