For Chat-Based AI, We Are All Once Again Tech Companies’ Guinea Pigs - WSJ:
Celeste Kidd, a professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, studies how people acquire knowledge. Her research has shown that people learning about new things have a narrow window in which they form a lasting opinion. Seeing misinformation during this critical initial period of exposure to a new concept—such as the kind of misinformation that chat-based AIs can confidently dispense—can do lasting harm, she says.
Dr. Kidd likens OpenAI’s experimentation with AI to exposing the public to possibly dangerous chemicals. “Imagine you put something carcinogenic in the drinking water and you were like, ‘We’ll see if it’s carcinogenic.’ After, you can’t take it back—people have cancer now,” she says.
Finished reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban. What a superb book – and how I wish I had written it. 📚
Currently reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 📚
The thing I find most suspicious/fishy/smelly about the current hype surrounding Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, and other AI applications is that it is almost exactly six months since the bottom dropped out of the cryptocurrency scam bubble.
This is not a coincidence.
Finished reading: Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands. A brilliant book – a vibrant narrative about an immensely complex subject. 📚
Currently reading: Dreams of El Dorado by H. W. Brands 📚