The Cognitive Dissonance of Chat GPT

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Chat GPT can't do what seems like it should be quite easy, like pull out relevant legal citations in a brief. A lot of people are feeling cognitive dissonance when they're told that these systems are improving at very fast speeds and may pose scary risks to humankind. I think there are a couple places that you could sort of place the blame here on the lawyer who thought chat GPT was omniscient. And don't skip the step where you check the models outputs to make sure that it's not making stuff up.

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?

Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.

Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

Today’s Guest:

Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.