Just in case anyone forgot, Altman of Open AI is reminding us that they believe they are actually building "AGI" ("AI systems that are generally smarter than humans") and that ChatGPT et al are steps towards that:
https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/
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That is, the very people in charge of building #ChatGPT want to believe SO BADLY that they are gods, creating thinking entities, that they have lost all perspective about what a text synthesis machine actually is.
I wish I could just laugh at this, but it's problematic because these people living in a fantasy world are also influencing policy decisions while also stirring up the current #AIhype frenzy, which also makes it more difficult to design and pass effective policy.
So far ChatGPT has been tried in:
1. Customer call centers (customers *loathe* chatbots)
2. News articles (paying subscribers start canceling their subscriptions)
3. Recommendation systems (users start harassing authors & libraries for non-existent books & articles)
4. Content farms (followers start unfollowing)
Are there any examples of "successful" launches of ChatGPT aside from dating & porn sites, Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram chatbots?
I think it could be a useful aid to the current search engines and organizing information (if they can get it right that is ;-), but wouldn't want the keyword search engines to be replaced (yet?).
I never get what I'm looking for with asking a question and have to filter through quite a few pages to find what I'm looking for when using keywords, but at least find what I'm looking for.
Could never understand how people stop at page one of the search results.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Nicole Parsons
Kate