What's worse? I wonder, while I nail my pupil in one of the many headlines. Are robots getting smarter or humans getting dumber?
I'm talking about the popular GPT-4, of course.
Go ahead, your servant is in favor of progress like the most. Three cheers for well-run, better-used, and more-regulated artificial intelligence. Oh, the power of the algorithm. But I differ from the enthusiasm that half of humanity has shown these weeks for the OpenAI chatbot GPT. In the opinion of this insignificant mortal who learns from what she reads and from experience, that she gets emotional and that she feels, that she distinguishes between good and evil, it is beginning to be time for us to stop feeding this beast. Enough.
It's not that I worry that artificial intelligence could become one of the biggest risks to the future of civilization. I don't think the machines are going to rebel at any moment like a Hollywood movie. By the way, this saying that the apocalypse is about to come is said by Elon Musk, the same one who co-founded OpenAI and the same one who is now starting his AI project to create an alternative to GPT, while Microsoft (Bing) and Google ( Bard).
If something is inside Musk, be careful.
The most advanced technology yet, the GPT-4 makes the mistakes of its previous versions. He keeps lying like a knave, and when he doesn't know something, he makes it up. The machine will be able to write a wide variety of texts, give health advice, do I don't know how many creative functions. Even describe images. There are the false images of the false arrest of Trump... And he is about to tell almost funny jokes. But he lacks what it takes to match human intelligence.
There are other dire implications of this chatbot for public debate. It is obvious that all professions related to writing texts are in danger. Of course also journalism, one that gives a damn about the truth, veracity and rigor.
Glory days are coming for mediocrity if we make it easy for a bot to do all the work for us because it's more comfortable for us and because, bah, I do that by pressing a button. No more thinking. No more learning. Humans less and less human, and infinitely dumber. There is no more efficient way to destroy intelligence, even though that of some specimens of our species is yet to develop or is in pause mode.
