OPINION: Experts suggest there is more parrot than prodigy in the new AI chatbots. But they should be looked at for their promise, not panicked over.
Has The AFR View been written by an AI chatbot today? Could you tell? Will it matter? Those are the sort of uncomfortable questions the world has been asking itself since the so-called generative artificial intelligence app ChatGPT was launched fewer than three months ago.
There have been instant fears that it might debase school and higher education with plagiarised homework and exams. But it could also automate many graduate jobs anyway,medical, legal, teaching and even managerial professions, the pillars of modern society. ChatGPT is a language model machine learning program. It uses 175 billion parameters to trawl the internet for words and phrases, weigh up the relationships and then create content out of them. Sourcing from the internet gives it both the wisdom and the madness of crowds.
However, critics and fans alike say that this time it’s different: these machines learn so fast that white-collar work might be changed forever.There has always been a tendency to catastrophise about new technologies. Businesses are cautiously welcoming this one. More than half of the big companies globally already use simpler AI chatbots, as chief executives think of how to utilise the new tools before their competitors do.
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