Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling” | AI Reality Check
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The last three years have been sort of Exhausting for me. You know, as a computer scientist and a technology commentator I was excited by Chat Chi PT when it was first released. I mim the effectiveness Of generative AI at both understanding and producing structured language was cool and unexpected. It was sort of like when you first saw that.
That pinched a Zoom feature. on an early iPhone. So it seems self evident to me that hey, with enough experimentation, we would for sure find some impressive applications for large language models and I was curious to learn What they would be. But then almost immediately
The discourse surrounding AI became cloaked in a mantle of dread. And hype. A few months after ChatGPT's launch, for example, Uval Harari, Tristan Harris, and Azaraskin published an alarming New York Times op-ed about what the arrival of this tool foretold. Here's what they wrote. AI's new mastery of language means it can now hack and manipulate the operating system of civilization. By gaining mastery of language, AI is seizing the master key to civilization from bank vaults to holy sp uh sepulchres.
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