It happened just half a year ago. At the end of last November, OpenAI released its new version of GPT conversational chat. The world discovered with amazement that a machine was capable of expressing itself like humans. Artificial intelligence had been advancing for years, but it wasn't until we saw that this bot called ChatGPT-3.5 had acquired an ability as intrinsically human as that of conversing that many of us understood the scale of what was happening.
From that first moment of fascination we have gone, in just six months, to the apocalyptic warning of those who are leading this unbridled technological race: there is a high risk, the leaders of the leading companies have assured this week, that it will get out of control and cause a damage comparable to that of a "nuclear war", capable of causing the "extinction" of humanity.
Researcher Geoffrey Hinton, considered the godfather of AI for having discovered the way to transfer the human learning mechanism through neural networks to machines, has expressed himself in a similar vein. The speed at which new announcements are advancing has meant that AI has become one of the big items on the news agenda overnight. The vast majority of readers value the commitment of the newspaper to ensure good coverage of this issue, about which many of them express their doubts.
“Artificial intelligence is Frankenstein's monster. It should never have been investigated and even less developed. It will end humanity”, said a reader a few weeks ago in the comments space of the digital edition. "How heavy with artificial intelligence, as if we did not have enough with the human and natural," lamented another. “It is the new manna that technology companies have found to make money,” added a third party, who sees a “marketing campaign” by the industry.
Faced with the uncertainties generated by this revolution, the newspaper faces the challenge of reporting with rigor, depth and a vision that is open and critical at the same time. In addition to coverage from sections such as Society, Economy or the Tekneo channel of the digital edition, in-depth analyzes such as those of the historian Yuval Noah Harari or the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, as well as Artificial, the new newsletter of the deputy director Delia Rodríguez , contribute to creating an information range up to the challenge.
