ChatGPT Makes Me Believe In AI — and Fear for Humanity’s Future
We’ve been hearing about AI — Artificial Intelligence — for decades, and I, for one, never believed it was a true possibility. I was wrong. AI is real, and it’s here now. I doubt AI will ever think as we do, but that’s what makes it “artificial”, right?
ChatGPT — the ‘GPT’ stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer” — was launched on November 30,2022. After tooling around on it for a while, it’s obvious that ChatGPT is just the beginning, the first AI to really be accessible to the public, just as IBM’s PC 5150 was the first desktop computer that was a commercial success. I’m one of those old enough to remember being amazed at its 64KB of RAM and those wonderful 5.25" floppy disks which were so much easier than running programs from cassette tapes. This was in 1981, when TCP/IP had just been developed and Tim Berners-Lee began to realize the internet might be more than just a gleam in his eye. Who could possibly have imagined how far we would go in the next forty years?
The point is, with the arrival of ChatGPT, 2022 is to Artificial Intelligence what 1981 was to computers and the internet.
See for yourself why am I suddenly so bullish (and frightened) about the advent of AI. Go to the homepage of OpenAI, make a new account, open a session with ChatGPT. Prepared to be amazed. Also…
