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AI has definitely reached a significant milestone of development with both this and the generative abilities of the stable diffusion models. While it is moving quite fast, I believe most people have not been following much of the progress which has been made in the past decade in detail (unless this is your field of study or interest). For these people who are just now taking notice, it seems like it has advanced much more rapidly than one would expect and I am sure it might be overwhelming for many. While I find the recent gains are impressive, I am not overwhelmed by these advancements. GPT is not general intelligence. As I see it is rather a natural language interface to a store of information. There is no guarantee that the information you are retrieving is either correct or entirely related to your query. Many people take the most exaggerated examples of it's successes, package it with some blurb and offload it to social media for attention. IMO, It's not quite that great, but it is decent enough to have uses. I personally have been using the ChatGPT model to lookup sources of information. If I am unfamiliar with a term or name of an area of study, I can describe in a query and the model is capable of giving me the proper name (in this case predictive markets). It's also pretty good at knowing where some of the information is it has been trained on or about sources such as book names, research papers, and lectures if you ask further on such a subject. In this regard, I consider it to be a watershed moment in search engine tech and I encourage others to utilize it (discriminatively) in this manner as well. Personally, this is great boon for me since I essentially have been working in a vacuum for the past 6-7 years. I know very few people who share my interests at the same depth and most of those who might are either in purely academic settings, highly specialized research departments, or small unadvertised groups of enthusiasts. Sometimes you need to rely on knowledge and experience of others to steer you in the right direction, and while that is not always available to me at least I can make queries about esoteric subjects without having to track somebody down capable of answering them. As for family, I always advise caution. Sen. Coons summed my sentiments well in his statement in the Nov 17, 2020 Judiciary hearings on social media: "... it's time for us to take seriously the ways which technology can be a threat, and to measure it not just by the good it does, but the harm it can cause." You can thank ChatGPT for looking that quote for me from a rather clumsy approximation and rough setting of when it occurred. When queried for links to the video from C-SPAN however, it rather just made up some BS approximations of what the URL might have looked like. |