New York: In this age of rapid technological advancement, ChatGPT created a flutter when it was rolled out for public testing in November 2022.
The world was awe-struck to find the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot being able to respond to any question like a human being along with carrying out various tasks like writing codes, composing poetry, writing essays, generating website content, generating video scripts, etc.
A few days ago, GPT-4 — an enhanced and more powerful version of ChatGPT — was announced. It can accept image inputs, handle more complex tasks, and has already solved major exam papers.
With ChatGPT getting increasingly more popular, many are starting to think that the AI chatbot could potentially replace human jobs in the future.
Even Sam Altman, the founder of ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI, has acknowledged that concern. He, however, added that human creativity is ‘limitless and we find new jobs, new things to do’.
Altman said he is a ‘little bit scared’ of his creation in an interview with ABC News.
“We’ve got to be careful here… I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this. I think if I said I were not, you should either not trust me, or be very unhappy I’m in this job,” Altman said.
He opined that artificial intelligence will ‘reshape society’ and can be the ‘greatest technology humanity has developed’ to improve lives, but comes with ‘some real dangers’.
Spelling out his concerns, Altman said: “I’m particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation. Now that they’re getting better at writing computer code, they could be used for offensive cyberattacks.”
Altman also said that while ChatGPT is in human control, he wasn’t be sure of humans who will be controlling it.
“There will be other people who don’t put some of the safety limits that we put on… Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it,” Altman said.
