At the crossroads: ChatGPT's 1 million users
ChatGPT got to one million users in just five days. And it is seemingly everywhere. I’ve played around with it quite a bit to the extent that I am using it “in production” for my work. Simple case: I needed to illustrate a presentation but I had a mind blank, so I had a conversation with ChatGPT for a couple of minutes. I asked it to put together a simple but clear description. I then took that description to Midjourney to generate some clip art.?
I also experimented with having ChatGPT come up with a lemon squeezer that didn’t need me to cut the lemon in half. We generated the product description through a simple dialogue. I took the description to?Midjourney?to produce a mockup. You can see the?rendering here.?
But the explosive risks of this particular service are starting to become more apparent. Paul Kedrosky, an investor who I have known for more than 15 years, is anxious.
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He concludes:?
Society is not ready for a step function inflection in our ability to costlessly produce anything connected to text. Human morality does not move that quickly, and it’s not obvious how we now catch up.
We have just had trust hacked as a society by a bad actor. I am hearing from colleges unsure what to do about grading ALL ESSAYS this term. Hundreds and hundreds of essays. The examples are legion across many, many domains. A societal trust collapse, at scale.?I obviously feel ChatGPT (and its ilk) should be withdrawn immediately.
I have some sympathy for this argument: the gap between humans and technology is the thesis of?my book. And it’s clear that without some constraints, driving the cost of producing realistic-sounding (but untrue or harmful) text to zero will overwhelm our judgement filters. I’ll only use ChatGPT as just one input to my decision-making, in the same way I use Google search or Wikipedia entry. None of them are the last word. But we can’t expect that to be the case for every user. We do need a serious discussion about the huge risks: that we might suck trust out of many of the processes of everyday life. I do think the OpenAI team is being a little too blithe in not having that conversation.?
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1 年People are missing the point as often with technology. Do not stop the technological progress, change the way you grad students. The old ways of grading is dead. We need a new method. Asking someone to write an essay at home will not allow you to mesure whether or not he knows what he is talking about. You will need new tools to assess students level of understanding the same way students are using new tools for learning. Education should be seen as a technology. You need to evolve in your pedagogy and your tools and in your methods. A.I is not the enemy here
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1 年I'm with you - ChatGPT has some benefits in many ways, but the discussion about its risks is critical. It offers adequate assistance in generating creative ideas, but misuse of the system is possible and needs further discussion.
I wonder how many people realize the training data is a year out of date? i.e. nothing from 2022 in answers (source: ChatGPT)
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1 年I can’t help but feel our direction of travel with AI is a massive self own for the human race. We are undermining any demand for our best skills as a species for what end?
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1 年Apparently, it's working at full capacity with no more room for new users...