I'm a software engineer but I don't work in machine learning. I'm probably better versed on the subject than most but far from a subject matter expert. If anything I say gets corrected by an expert I'll certainly defer to that person.
With that, what we're seeing is machine learning and that's something that can be really useful. ChatGPT …
I'm a software engineer but I don't work in machine learning. I'm probably better versed on the subject than most but far from a subject matter expert. If anything I say gets corrected by an expert I'll certainly defer to that person.
With that, what we're seeing is machine learning and that's something that can be really useful. ChatGPT is more of a gimmick or novelty. When I logged into the company's website as a developer they had quite a few other things to show and I'm sure many would be useful.
Machine learning can also be labeled Narrow AI. Kind of like it sounds, it's set up for one particular task like being a chatbot or reading radiology images. We've all heard of the biases that find their way in because of the datasets used to train them.
What people fear is General AI. That's a complex issue and probably at least decades away because it would me something is sentient. The first question is why would we ever develop General AI? We have billions of them on the planet already and truthfully it makes more sense to give human brains additional tools to enhance what they can do instead of trying to build another sentient being. There's the risk and then the ethical questions. We could save ourselves a lot of trouble and stick with a collection of narrow AI to help us out.
I can envision yet another arms race between Narrow AI systems designed to sell us stuff and other Narrow AI that helps us filter it out. We tend to become pretty good at that anyway. We can all read web sites and tune out the ads or ignore them in any feeds we have. It wasn't that long ago that people feared there were subliminal messages in cinema ads.
Some people won't be able to distinguish between genuine content and fake content - like what happens now. This is the Next Level (so to speak).
I think other things are a bigger threat now, like the Republican Party as it stands or an errant nuclear exchange. A search engine finding a new way to stear people isn't high on my list of concerns.
I could be.wrong. I have built enough software in my career to know how badly so much software is written. One thing that should worry is all is how many critical systems are still in COBOL and how many COBOL programmers keep retiring in large numbers.
I'm a software engineer but I don't work in machine learning. I'm probably better versed on the subject than most but far from a subject matter expert. If anything I say gets corrected by an expert I'll certainly defer to that person.
With that, what we're seeing is machine learning and that's something that can be really useful. ChatGPT is more of a gimmick or novelty. When I logged into the company's website as a developer they had quite a few other things to show and I'm sure many would be useful.
Machine learning can also be labeled Narrow AI. Kind of like it sounds, it's set up for one particular task like being a chatbot or reading radiology images. We've all heard of the biases that find their way in because of the datasets used to train them.
What people fear is General AI. That's a complex issue and probably at least decades away because it would me something is sentient. The first question is why would we ever develop General AI? We have billions of them on the planet already and truthfully it makes more sense to give human brains additional tools to enhance what they can do instead of trying to build another sentient being. There's the risk and then the ethical questions. We could save ourselves a lot of trouble and stick with a collection of narrow AI to help us out.
I can envision yet another arms race between Narrow AI systems designed to sell us stuff and other Narrow AI that helps us filter it out. We tend to become pretty good at that anyway. We can all read web sites and tune out the ads or ignore them in any feeds we have. It wasn't that long ago that people feared there were subliminal messages in cinema ads.
Some people won't be able to distinguish between genuine content and fake content - like what happens now. This is the Next Level (so to speak).
I think other things are a bigger threat now, like the Republican Party as it stands or an errant nuclear exchange. A search engine finding a new way to stear people isn't high on my list of concerns.
I could be.wrong. I have built enough software in my career to know how badly so much software is written. One thing that should worry is all is how many critical systems are still in COBOL and how many COBOL programmers keep retiring in large numbers.