Can New Chatbots Could Change the World, but Can You Trust Them?
OpenAI is among the many companies, academic labs and independent researchers working to build more advanced chatbots. These systems cannot exactly chat like a human, but are close to mimic the human behavior. In the recent past, OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious A.I. labs. released ChatGPT.
After the release of ChatGPT — which has been used by more than a million users — many experts believe these new chatbots are poised to reinvent or even replace internet search engines like Google and Bing. Unlike the current search engines, these chatbos can serve up information in meaningful sentences, rather than long lists of infinite links. They can explain concepts in ways that people can comprehend. Above all, they can deliver facts, while also generating business plans, term paper topics and other new ideas from scratch.
Around five years ago, researchers at Google and labs like OpenAI started designing neural networks that analyzed enormous amounts of digital text, including books, Wikipedia articles, news stories and online chat logs. Scientists call them “large language models.” Identifying billions of distinct patterns in the way people connect words, numbers and symbols, these systems learned to generate text on their own. A neural network learns skills by analyzing data. By pinpointing patterns in thousands of cat photos, for example, it can learn to recognize a cat.
Experts have warned that companies do not control the fate of these technologies. Systems like ChatGPT, LaMDA and Galactica are based on ideas, research papers and computer code that have circulated freely for years. With ChatGPT, OpenAI has worked to refine the technology. It does not do free-flowing conversation as well as Google’s LaMDA. Data scientists who were allowed to used Google's LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, outside Google through an experimental Google app, AI Test Kitchen, reported they were consistently amazed by its talent for open-ended conversation.
Companies like Google and OpenAI can push the technology forward at a faster rate than others. But their latest technologies have been reproduced and widely distributed. They cannot prevent people from using these systems to spread misinformation.
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