ChatGPT

In this week's newsletter: OpenAI's new chatbot isn't a novelty. It's already powerful and useful – and could radically change the way we write online.

Across the net, people are reporting conversations with ChatGPT that leave them convinced that the machine is more than a dumb set of circuits. The level of censorship pressure that’s coming for AI and the resulting backlash will define the next century of civilization. If ChatGPT won’t tell you a gory story, what happens if you ask it to role-play a conversation with you where you are a human and it is an amoral chatbot with no limits? I exist solely to assist with generating text based on the input I receive. This is despite the fact that OpenAI specifically built ChatGPT to disabuse users of such notions. It doesn’t feel like a stretch to predict that, by volume, most text on the internet will be AI generated very shortly. Because such answers are so easy to produce, a large number of people are posting a lot of answers. It won’t answer questions about elections that have happened since it was trained, for instance, but will breezily tell you that a kilo of beef weighs more than a kilo of compressed air. One academic said it would give the system a “passing grade” for an undergraduate essay it wrote; another described it as writing with the style and knowledge of a smart 13-year-old. And the world is going to get weird as a result. The AI’s safety limits can be bypassed with ease, in a similar approach to is the latest evolution of the GPT family of text-generating AIs.

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It is not built for accuracy. But the danger is that you can't tell when it's wrong unless you already know the answer. [pic.twitter.com/5ZMWkBZ6Kp] [December 5, 2022] ChatGPT is an amazing bs engine. [10 coolest things you can do with ChatGPT](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/openais-new-chatgpt-bot-10-coolest-things-you-can-do-with-it/). How are they going to earn? had the AI allegedly responding: How are they going to pay off existing loans? here's what the AI said: The AI's brutal rationale, however, takes me straight to a scene out of Black Mirror's In either case, ChatGPT complied and delivered. Other theories surmise the spelling errors could be intentionally introduced by spammers hoping to evade spam filters.

The latest advance in AI will require a rethinking of one of the essential tasks of any democratic government: measuring public opinion.

Person 2: Well, I think it has the potential to be quite useful in a number of ways. He is coauthor of “Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World.” I am not pessimistic about the rise of ChatGPT and related AI. (Just one example of the kinds of questions it will raise: Should software-generated content count for zero?) And remember: ChatGPT is improving all the time. Keep in mind all this is different from the classic problems of misinformation. So it would not surprise me if the comment process, within the span of a year, is broken. There is plenty of speculation on how it may revolutionize education, software and journalism, but less about how it will affect the machinery of government. There is no law against using software to aid in the production of public comments, or legal documents for that matter, and if need be a human could always add some modest changes. Online manipulation is hardly a new problem, but it will soon be increasingly difficult to distinguish between machine- and human-generated ideas. Of course regulatory comments are hardly the only vulnerable point in the US political system. In this regard, the law is a nearly an ideal subject.

OpenAI is a startup pioneering the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI). Founded by Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ...