As an aside, from a pure anthropological and sociological point of view, I find witnessing the reaction people have to ChatGPT extremely interesting.
Some commenters here seem to immediately focus on the potential negative effects, abuse by the military industry or the powers that be, manipulation and disinformation.
I’m personally still in awe that we are collectively witnessing the birth of a piece of technology which understands and creates and stand at the dawn of a potentially profoundly different era. I truly believe that this is the printing press once again and we are here, alive. We are living the revolution. Imagine all the positive possibilities: a word where kids have access to infinitely patient and benevolent teachers who can explain the sum of all knowledge, a world where readers can have books infinitely rewritten and modified in a subtle blurring of producing and consuming content, a world where machine can help you turn what you imagine into real shareable pictures. ChatGPT is not yet the best story teller ever but it’s already so fun I feel like a kid. I can’t stop wondering where things are going to be in a decade.
Frighteningly I guess both visions can be equally true.
I agree and even go further it's not like the dawn of print or internet or mobile, it's to the level of the discovery of fire or the invention of language.
Yes the original commented-out title in the tex code of https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 was "First Contact With an AGI System" but they toned it down before publication lol.
Some commenters here seem to immediately focus on the potential negative effects, abuse by the military industry or the powers that be, manipulation and disinformation.
I’m personally still in awe that we are collectively witnessing the birth of a piece of technology which understands and creates and stand at the dawn of a potentially profoundly different era. I truly believe that this is the printing press once again and we are here, alive. We are living the revolution. Imagine all the positive possibilities: a word where kids have access to infinitely patient and benevolent teachers who can explain the sum of all knowledge, a world where readers can have books infinitely rewritten and modified in a subtle blurring of producing and consuming content, a world where machine can help you turn what you imagine into real shareable pictures. ChatGPT is not yet the best story teller ever but it’s already so fun I feel like a kid. I can’t stop wondering where things are going to be in a decade.
Frighteningly I guess both visions can be equally true.