For a while, we've asked the hypothetical question about what might happen if a robot could take over our jobs—whether it's writing articles, programming code, making music, providing customer service, drafting contracts, or teaching, and so on—but now the hypothetical is more real than ever.
By this point, you've probably heard about ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot programmed to simulate human conversation. No software has ever been able to so convincingly provide human-like, detailed answers to inquiries before.OpenAI released the prototype to the public near the end of 2022, and while it's astonishing even to some of the biggest figures in tech for its advanced writing skills, it's also incredibly concerning. From the threat it poses to schools to the unethical treatment of those manually filtering out toxic content from the source data on which the AI is trained, there are many valid worries attached to this incredibly innovative tech.
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