Chat GPT is a chat bot. You are asking it something and it's going to give you something back. Open AI basically scanned large volumes of internet content from all sorts of places, including social media, Reddit, various web pages, Wikipedia. It uses that text in an artificial intelligence model which draws on what it is quote unquote learned but not really to create sort of a mimicry of human speech. We're getting really interesting things like people asked it to generate Seinfeld scripts or cocktail recipes,. But we also get misinformation, things that are incorrect, things that can be abusive or not very nice, Things that can be creepy.
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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