Artificial intelligence (AI) has created a lot of buzz with the rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot and generative AI imagers like Midjourney and DALL-E 2. However, not everyone agrees with this emerging technology.
A new note from The New York Times (NYT) reveals that, in March, two ex-Google employees tried to stop the company from launching its own AI chatbot that would compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
According to the NYT note, the employees’ job is specifically to review Google’s AI products. The employees allegedly believed that the technology generated “inaccurate and dangerous statements.”
Microsoft employees and ethics experts raised similar concerns months earlier, when it was also planning to launch an artificial intelligence chatbot that would integrate with its Bing browser. Concern was raised at Microsoft about the degradation of critical thinking, misinformation, and the erosion of the “factual foundations of modern society.”
Nevertheless, Microsoft launched its Bing-integrated chatbot in February, and a month later, Google launched its “Bard” chatbot at the end of March, both followed the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 in November 2022.
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— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 21, 2023
Since its launch, ChatGPT has sparked important discussions around the ethics and use of AI chatbots and image generators.
Midjourney -an application that uses artificial intelligence to generate realistic images- suspended its free trial to curb problematic deep fakes. Around the same time, an Australian media executive asked ChatGPT and OpenAI for monetary compensation for the news he consumes.
Meanwhile, the future of society and the truth raise concerns in a letter written by more than 1,000 tech researchers and thought leaders, including Elon Musk. The letter urges to slow down the pace of technology development.
Governments around the world have approached the emerging technology in a similar vein, with Italian authorities temporarily blocking access to ChatGPT in the country. US President Joe Biden has also urged tech companies to address the risks posed by AI.
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