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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

AI/ChatGPT - Hype and Reality

I Witnessed Magic, and It’s the Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opinion/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt.html
Tom Friedman notes:
The last time we invented a technology this powerful we created nuclear energy — it could be used to light up your whole country or obliterate the whole planet. But the thing about nuclear energy is that it was developed by governments, which collectively created a system of controls to curb its proliferation to bad actors — not perfectly but not bad.
A.I., by contrast, is being pioneered by private companies for profit. The question we have to ask, Craig argued, is how do we govern a country, and a world, where these A.I. technologies “can be weapons or tools in every domain,” while they are controlled by private companies and are accelerating in power every day? And do it in a way that you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.