Dina: Could we be facing another misinformation epidemic? We don't know how often these systems make factual mistakes and search engines, you rely on them to give you facts. I feel like it's really interesting that consumers are at this point expected to help improve the product as it goes. It just seems like a lot to ask of somebody, doesn't it? Dina: Google is racing to get out this bot as Bloomberg News has reported. They're trying to put generative AI into all their products,. But are all the proper safeguards really there?
As the technology powering artificial intelligence keeps improving, it’s getting harder to tell the difference between human and machine. And that means companies are looking to capitalize on its uses.
ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is quickly rolling out new iterations, like the more powerful version of the product called GPT-4. Google has introduced its own version, albeit with some early stumbles. And Elon Musk also has his eye on the AI space.
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson and technology reporters Dina Bass and Rachel Metz have reported extensively on the rise of ChatGPT and other forms of AI. They join this episode to talk through the upsides–and significant downsides–of a bot that can appear to write and sort of think for you, and what it looks like when humanlike machines become a bigger part of our daily work and lives.
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