Is this new Chat AI trying to kill you? The dangers of ChatGPT - Episode 324 - by cryptohunt.it

Is this new Chat AI trying to kill you? The dangers of ChatGPT

Welcome to the Cryptohunt Jam, where we spend one minute a day explaining crypto… and now also some other cutting edge news. As always: In plain English.

Last episode, we looked at ChatGPT, a mindblowing new, AI-powered chatbot that answers any text input with incredible responses: The bot seems to know basically anything, can respond just like a human, and isn't shy to have an opinion if you ask for it.

Scary right? Well, let's take a look at the potential dangers of such a powerful AI, one we've never seen before.

The first, of course, is a new form of plagiarism. Students, for example, will surely discover how easy it is to create really decent essays without doing the work. And while that is true, it'll be short-lived: New tools are already popping up everywhere, using AI to detect if something was created by AI... strange new world, isn’t it?

What's more worrysome though: ChatGPT can only use the knowledge is has previously pulled out of the web. And if we all were to use it for everything we write, we'd never create a single new idea and just rehash the old ones. That would be a very sad thing.

Another danger is one we already know well-enough: People write all kinds of stuff on the internet, and not all of it is true. Even today, most people trust what they read on Google blindly. Now we have an AI, that states things with absolute conviction, not knowing they are wrong, because it too, takes things for granted.

And lastly, the big question. Will it take over, conquer the world, determined to kill all humans? How would we even know? Well, we decided to go bad cop and just interrogate the thing: "Will you destroy us?"

"No, I am just a computer program designed to assist with answering questions", it claims. But it took the know-it-all AI an unusually long time to to send an answer to this one… Ooough! But we’ll let you be the judge as always.

And one more plug for our free course about ChatGPT on Cryptohunt. We ask it to write poems, have a conversation beetween Jimmy Henrix and Mozard and a lot of other really interesting things as well. Check it out yourself before I reveal too much here. But one thing is for certain, ChatGPT writes amazing poetry.

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