ChatGpt, the frontier of artificial intelligence between potential and dark side

Trained to answer any question:ChatGpt is a new AI-based conversational model.The risk is producing misinformation.

This time we're here, it's not an exercise.They have arrived artificial intelligences.In recent weeks more and more people have discovered the potential of Gpt-3 model, underlying the functioning of systems such as Dall-E and ChatGpt, services produced by the startup OpenAI. And then Stable diffusion And MidJourney AI, more accessible and open to the public, whose ability to generate images based on written descriptions has amazed most.

What is ChatGpt, news in AI, artificial intelligence

ChatGpt it is a special case.The moment when was released to the public it would represent "the iPhone moment of the AI ​​sector", the event thanks to which the mass public realizes what the future holds according to Bloomberg.But is it really like that?As you can imagine from the name, ChatGpt presents itself to the user as a simple chat with which it is possible to communicate with Gpt-3, a linguistic model which has existed since 2020 and has been modified in a conversational way.For years, OpenAI has "trained" Gpt-3 with huge text archives taken from the web, Wikipedia, newspapers, magazines and books, but also from social media, in order to teach the machine how humans communicate.To do this, it was programmed to break each text and sentence into basic text units (called "tokens"), which were then analyzed individually.

To create a functioning and amazing model like the ones in question, however, it is necessary computational power.A lot.According to some data cited by podcast from The Verge website, OpenAI would burn three million dollars a day responding to user requests.All those screenshots we've seen over the last few days, where users are asking ChatGpt nonsense?They have cost the company a fortune, which has long received (and spent rather quickly) investments from the main venture capitalists and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley - Reed Hastings of Netflix, the omnipresent Elon Musk and Microsoft first and foremost.Costs aside, the result helped confirm AI as the next big thing, after a couple of years spent chasing the ghosts of crypto.The applications of this type of technology are potentially many and it is still early to venture into predictions:there are those who swear that a similar service could replace Google and search engines, for example.The idea is the following:since ChatGpt can answer any question, why should we use Google in the future as we have been doing for twenty years now?The answer seems clear if for a moment we don't take into consideration the fact that similar AIs often give bizarre and incorrect answers, while maintaining a very authoritative tone and style.ChatGpt's function is to create credible text, not to become an oracle to which you can entrust your life.For that, I think, we have to wait for Gpt-4, who knows.

The dark side of artificial intelligence

Chances are that in recent days you have read or seen content that was written or created by an artificial intelligence.In the majority of cases it was one of the services that did it OpenAI, a startup founded in 2015 by Sam Altman and others, with investments from the Netflix founder Reed Hastings to Elon Musk, but also Microsoft. At the center of recent discussions is ChatGpt, an AI that works like a chat to which you can ask any type of question, always receiving rather credible answers.Chat can compose poetry, imitate writers and give answers to creative questions.He obeys commands, and does it well.This means that it also knows how to produce disinformation with extreme speed and effectiveness;just ask him.Of course, OpenAI has put limits on the topics covered by the chat but getting around them is not difficult.The potential that technology can have for propaganda And fake news it is enormous, as admitted by CEO Altman himself, who confessed that ChatGpt is capable of creating "content capable of giving an erroneous perception of quality".Imagine a button with which to generate conspiracy theories and misinformation, en masse, in a few seconds.Here we are now.ChatGpt is a key moment for the AI ​​sector of which it represents the dark side.