Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine, discusses the potential and pitfalls of applying ChatGPT to search. Topics include the risks of generative AI, evaluating credibility, the impact on human interaction, limitations and regulation of chatbots, and concerns raised by AI experts.
ChatGPT is a groundbreaking development in generative AI technology that can produce coherent and knowledgeable answers.
ChatGPT poses challenges with biases, misinformation, and potential misuse, including the automation of convincing and difficult to detect disinformation bots.
Deep dives
Introduction of generative AI and the impact of chat GPT
Artificial intelligence has gained significant attention with the release of OpenAI's chat GPT, leading to the emergence of generative AI technology. Chat GPT provides an illusion of intelligence, raising concerns of automated disinformation bots that could be convincing and difficult to detect.
Development and progress of artificial intelligence
Around 10 years ago, a breakthrough in AI research occurred with the discovery of the power of artificial neural networks, known as deep learning. This technique brought advancements in image recognition and handwriting recognition. More recently, there has been a major leap in algorithms that can generate content, leading to the creation of chat GPT.
Overview of chat GPT and its significance
Chat GPT is a chatbot powered by deep learning, capable of producing coherent and knowledgeable answers. It represents a significant innovation in technology, with potential applications in generating text, code, and imagery. The performance and capabilities of chat GPT have made it a groundbreaking development.
The implications and challenges of chat GPT and generative AI
While chat GPT showcases impressive capabilities, it is important to acknowledge its limitations. The underlying technology is an algorithm predicting the next word in a sentence, without possessing actual intelligence. Chat GPT faces challenges with biases, misinformation, and potential misuse, including the automation of disinformation campaigns that could be difficult to identify.
Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as "generative AI."
Is that a fact? is a production of the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to create a more news-literate America. Our host is Darragh Worland, our producer is Mike Webb, our editor is Timothy Kramer, and our theme music is by Eryn Busch.
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