It's going to become increasingly hard to tell whether the post you see on Instagram or the email in your inbox or even the video that you're watching on Twitch or YouTube was generated by a human or not. So what do we do about all of this? I think that one of the answers here is just making people disclose what models they are using. We could rebuild trust if we knew what technologies were baked into these new tools we're using.
Microsoft’s release of a ChatGPT-powered Bing signifies a new era in search. Then, a disastrous preview of Bard — Google’s answer to ChatGPT — caused the company’s stocks to slide 7 percent. The A.I. arms race is on.
Plus: What “Nothing, Forever,” the 24/7, A.I.-generated “Seinfeld” parody, says about bias in A.I.
On today’s episode:
- Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI.
- Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer of Microsoft.
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