ChatGPT, the topic my CEO wanted us to research, is on the tip of everyone's tongue right now—yet another Elon Musk project that could prove, as they say, disruptive on a global level. Here's a video clip of Jordan Peterson talking about ChatGPT, his experience interacting with it, and what he thinks the implications are for the future. Scary stuff:
Meanwhile, my own interactions with ChatGPT, and those of my boss and our CEO, brought us all pretty quickly to the chatbot's limits. It's nowhere near passing the Turing Test, for example. It's easy to trip up, and the longer you interact with it, the clearer it is that you're not dealing with a human being.
I remember once reading that one of the scarier AI-gone-wild scenarios isn't that AI will grow sentient and immediately eradicate anything it perceives as a threat (like humanity): it's the idea that AI might grow sentient and then disappear into the crowd, now free to work its machinations away from the world's gaze. That's creepy.
Meanwhile, there's the new horror movie "M3gan," about an AI doll that turns evil à la Chucky. If we can think of Hollywood as expressing the thoughts and feelings swirling around in the cultural id, then it's obvious humanity has been worried, for a very long time, about being supplanted by its own creations. From Shelley's Frankenstein to the Terminator movies to "Battlestar Galactica," we've collectively expressed fears of the creation surpassing the creator or the children rising above the parents. Maybe we've finally reached that horizon. That's what the term singularity was invented to express.
NB: Jordan Peterson is in the news lately because he's been called to the carpet for recent remarks he made that somehow run against The Narrative. The idea seems to be that he'll have to face a panel of people and possibly undergo a kind of "reeducation" process. How Orwellian can you get? Dr. Peterson! Move to Korea! We could use some of your shaking-the-roots thinking here.
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