ChatGPT

[madscijr]

Hi Mad Science - ya, good points all BUT, the bad side of life has always been with us, including misinformation and unfounded facts & figures. And mostly it's all driven by power and money & muscle and might. 

The thing about science however is proof and accuracy driven. ChatGPT for example apparently has a routine which looks for fraudulent or unfounded facts. I'm not that up on it but if that's true, then future versions of ChatGPT will come out with ways to improve it's accuracy otherwise what good is it in light of all you have described as it's limitations today. The greatest threat to ChatGPT, IMHO as Tempodi puts it, will be the governments of the world. The potential of Generative AI has significant consequences to all occupations and all financial institutes that are the cornerstones of todays society.

I do not have a copy of the ChatGPT program so a lot, if not all, I say is just coming from the many, many books I have read on AI and it's potential. No one can predict the future accurately (as our weather apps demonstrate) but ChatGPT, in its' present state, is just scratching the surface of what it could become.

This technology does have some great potential - just wait 'til they perfect the part that verifies accuracy and put it on the job of curing cancer, preventing wars & financial crises, etc.! Like you said, the danger of government meddling is there - who knows how it's already being used? 

It's just that when we talk about turning over teaching and people's education almost exclusively to these kinds of systems, my spider sense starts tingling. Real human interaction and experience is important, not only for safety, but for a richer more meaningful life for everyone.

Let's keep up the conversations about this stuff, and hopefully contribute to making it better and avoiding the pitfalls!