It was great while it lasted

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Person using ChatGPT: "Write a Haiku from the perspective of a copywriter who is feeling sad that AI might diminish the value of the written word"

ChatGPT:

Words on a screen,
Once valued, now just a blur.
Machine takes the pen.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Is that clearer? Not much. Who said they had to?

content can be both toxic and lawful.

#1 - Yes, and I know who enforces things that are unlawful. I'm glad they do. Not only that, but I know where to find a copy of the law. I know I can hire a lawyer to navigate the law. I know a judge can decide on innocent vs guilty and assign punishment accordingly. Not only that, but I know how laws are made, where they are debated etc.

I was clear, sorry you feel I wasn't. I hope I am now. If not, I gave it a shot.

#2 I didn't bring up toxic, and harm to specific groups, and trust signals, so what are YOU suggesting? Who do you propose decides what is toxic? How do you propose they enforce their decisions? Should they supersede actual law? Where can I find a copy of what is currently moral, not considered "harm", or viewed as "hate" by ANY group. You brought it up, you explain that stuff.

I'm not blind to your concerns, I share them, but I do suggest (in general) people stop hating on each other no matter who suggests they "fight" for any given cause. If you think something is toxic, great, laws can change. People should use the legal process, not edicts, media or other institutions to bully others. IMO.

Seriously, the thread is about AI tech and I think chatGPT is better than fine so far, even without signals of trust in the output. Would you trust AI to be your lawyer? For a traffic ticket? AI made by a company that fights fines? It should be an interesting case if nothing else.

Experts in every field are seeing how AI can help, and are creating so many different versions that no group is going to police them all anyway.. except actual law enforcement.

[phranque]

Any majorly successful tech company is bound to join "Big Tech" at some point...

that ship may be preparing to set sail:
MS reportedly participating in $10B investment in OpenAI [webmasterworld.com]

[tangor]

How all this comes together with the search engines will determine the landscape of the net in 2023 and beyond.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

chatGPT is old news already, ChatSonic has already become more popular for what chatGPT does. [writesonic.com...]

AI text generators are proliferating faster than big tech can throw money at them

- Chinchilla
- Bloom
- Replika
- Jasper Chat by Jasper
- LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications)
- Elsa Speak
- DialoGPT
- 18-19 others for under $100 a year, but most are going free.

SPECIALIZED generative language models are proliferating even faster, like the AI set to be an actual lawyer in a court case in March. Over 60 specialized AI models are receiving TRILLIONS in investments on Wall St.

PRIVATE language models, specialized to write anything from blog posts to books to news articles, are even more numerous and have been in use for a few years. They aren't staying private anymore.

So if MS bought chatGPT to control the tech they miscalculated, this tech is in the wild now.

It would be a good time to grab a copy, or work for a company that has a generative AI model, just so you can learn more about it and create your own personal tools (invest in making a better version of yourself).

[ronin]

Ummm. Well this is impressive.

Feel your jaw slowly drop as you watch what tech vlogger Nick White does in 30 seconds with the assistance of ChatGPT:

How I coded an entire website using ChatGPT
[youtube.com...]

Text generation is clever enough but webcode generation is really something else.

[ronin]

Relevant:

What is generative AI, and why is it suddenly everywhere?
Some think ChatGPT could ultimately replace Google’s search engine, which powers one of the biggest digital ad businesses in the world. ChatGPT is also pretty good at some basic aspects of coding, and technologies like it could eventually lower the overall costs of developing software [...] If and when this AI goes fully mainstream, it could be incredibly difficult to unravel. In this way, the biggest threat of this technology may be that it stands to change the world before we’ve had a chance to truly understand it.

Source: [vox.com...]

Also:

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
There have been some clever discoveries and new approaches, but for the most part, what we’ve done to make these systems smarter is just to make them bigger [...] One thing we’re definitely not doing: understanding them better [...] Often, a small tweak will improve performance substantially, but the engineers designing the systems don’t know why. [...] there’s a growing consensus that things could go really, really badly. In a summer 2022 survey of machine learning researchers [...] Forty-eight percent of respondents said they thought there was a 10 percent or greater chance that the effects of AI would be [...] human extinction [...] It’s worth pausing on that for a moment. Nearly half of the smartest people working on AI believe there is a 1 in 10 chance or greater that their life’s work could end up contributing to the annihilation of humanity.

Source: [vox.com...]

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

The fear is rampant right to the top (Google's code-red). Change causes uncertainty and the higher the stakes the stronger the fear. Media is just watching like we are, don't step in the agendas too much.

Hey - people who can't see can describe a picture from their minds and show others. People who can't code can talk to AI and generate code. People who can't read and write well can talk to AI and come up with a screenplay with the best of them, if they love movies.....

An AI driven site can be invaluable in helping diagnose a medical complaint by seeing it and understanding what you should do next. No more "13 things you should know about with GENERIC suggestions" fluff. An AI driven app can be your lawyer for trivial stuff. What else can it do? We'll find out, it's new tech.

A LOT of Good is happening, it's just not controlled by what might become legacy search, or mega rich tech companies, who only know how to be on top. Don't worry about them, they'll do well regardless, they have funds to buy the new AI tech but it got out so fast they can't control it. That ship has sailed.

Take a breath, find people doing awesome things with it and tell the world. Media is frightened too, they may not be the source of information much longer either. AI is truly a new dawn. These are exciting times again because of how much potential was unlocked. Don't let fear deny you access to it.

Jobs will be lost, new jobs will surface. I disagree that it will create a useless class, though. Who has time to be useless? So much more just became possible for so many more people that they'll want to experience things they never could have before, on their own. IMO.

If Stephen Hawking could see generative AI now he'd be updating his communication device to be able to debate it, no doubt.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Great articles Ronin, thanks.

From Vox - Generative AI’s results aren’t always perfect, and we’re certainly not dealing with an all-powerful, super AI — at least for now. Sometimes its creations are flawed, inappropriate, or don’t totally make sense.

There you go, that's like the "don't drink the fluid" warning on all the car batteries we use. When people know this, and learn how to avoid it, and Good AI learns how to spot it, that's all the warning label people need. No further "it's dangerous, don't let people use AI unless an authoritave source creates it" discussion needed, IMO.

I do hope the law is gearing up to catch people who create dangerous AI models, they will need to quickly respond when the few who would ruin it all try to do so. I suspect they'll use AI to keep up, too.

Re: The Chris White video - give someone a new tool and I'm always amazed at what people can come up with. Someone else will take it and go further. Yet someone else will take it in a different direction and eventually you won't be able to tell they both started from the ideas generated by one guy in a video.

The tech is scary when you consider it's in infancy right now. In a way this is closer to the future we all envisioned when computers first launched. We stagnated there for a bit, all communication, advertising, and shopping being condensed into the portals of a few, but I think AI is a breath of fresh air, the next growth spurt if you will.

Computers and access to AI need to reach schools in the furthest corners of the world, leave no ideas behind.

[ronin]

I think AI is a breath of fresh air, the next growth spurt if you will

I agree.

I think Generative AI will be to a lot of composition activities what a pocket calculator is to mental arithmetic.

I am perfectly happy to do mental arithmetic in all sorts of contexts. But occasionally, I am too tired or I can't be bothered, so I use the calculator app on my mobile or desktop OS, instead.

Of course, you stilll need to have a clear idea of what sum you wish the calculator to perform.