The co-founder of Apple had his say on the artificial intelligence chatbots that are all the rage these days.
If you are not a person that totally disliked by the digital world then most likely in this period you have heard at least once about ChatGPT. It is a very famous artificial intelligence chatbot created by OpenAI able to interact and answer practically all the questions that are asked.
ChatGPT is capable of performing tasks in minutes that would take a human being days or weeks such as writing movie scripts, news articles or research papers. It can also answer questions on topics ranging from party planning and parenting to solving math problems.
The ChatGPT phenomenon has exploded all over the world and within just 2 months it has already reached 100 million users, much faster than Tiktok. But not all that glitters is gold. Because even if it would appear to be a perfect machine, in reality it still hides several pitfalls. To think so is also Steve Wozniak, someone who knows something about technology since he is the co-founder of Apple.
What Steve Wozniak thinks about ChatGPT
Steve appeared in an American talk organized by CNBC and spoke about this increasingly popular chatbot. The co-founder of Apple considered it impressive for what it does and also quite useful to humans. At the same time, however, he raised the alarm because according to him he is also capable of doing horrible things. “The problem is that he does good things for us, but he can make horrible mistakes not knowing what humanity is” - he said.
For Steve, artificial intelligence is very useful but cannot yet completely replace human work. This is because although it is learning to perform human tasks more and more accurately, it still has to refine the information that sometimes turns out to be incorrect. Also there is another important aspect that highlighted the same Steve Wozniak: the total lack of emotions and feelings in the arguments. This dowry remains essential to human beings.
There is no doubt that chat bots represent the future and in fact other technology companies such as Google or Microsoft are also working on similar technologies. But before the appearance of a technology capable of totally replacing the human intellect, there is a reality that shows that there is still much work to be done.
Google lost $100 billion after unveiling its chatbot
And Google is well aware that after presenting its Bard it lost 100 billion dollars on the stock market. It all happened after the publication of an error in the video presentation of the new technology. Bard said the James Webb Space Telescope would be used to take the first ever photos of a planet located outside the solar system. This is totally false given that the first exoplanets were photographed thanks to powerful telescopes on the ground even 14 years before the launch of James Webb.
The news escaped Google engineers but not solar planet experts. Result? the Alphabet company that owns the listed search engine lost 7% of its value, about 100 billion dollars.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2023-02-11 12:33:43. Original title: Chat Gpt, Steve Wozniak lancia l’allarme: “Può fare cose orribili”
