![]() ![]() That’s unlikely to happen, and the result could be an overreliance on bad info. But each answer still requires separate fact-checking to determine accuracy. ![]() ChatGPT, on the other hand, does that curating for you, presenting the information in a well-crafted response that has the air of authority. Current search engines don’t produce a single answer but a range of sources, letting the user scan and decide for themselves. The internet is loaded with bad information that gets repeated across the web. I see a whole lot of controversy in the future around the use of text-based AI tools like ChatGPT, and many of the issues will likely stem from the fact that ChatGPT's responses may often do a better job of seeming correct than always being correct. Do I address ChatGPT like a person, using words like you and saying please and thank you? Or is it just a search engine with more elaborate responses? I started politely, but not too politely, and asked about its birding skills. I wasn’t really sure where to begin or what tone to take. OpenAI, the nonprofit laboratory that developed ChatGPT, has lofty goals for its creation, including “increasing abundance” (the abundance of what is not clear), “turbocharging the global economy,” and “aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility.” I’m just hoping it can help me tell woodpeckers apart. With potential horror stories fresh on my mind, I ventured into a conversation with ChatGPT, the “language model optimized for dialogue” that has led the AI chatbot charge. How useful might this technology be for a birder? Machine-learning birding apps such as Merlin and its ability to identify bird songs have revolutionized the field in just a few years, but what could a text-based AI program contribute? Could a friendly robo-assistant with all of the internet at its digital fingertips help someone be a better birder? I guess I might as well talk to one about birding. And I’m happily married and not looking to be lured into abandoning my wife and family. I’m not a hacker, so I can’t use them to help me quickly whip up some malware. So what now? I’m not in school anymore, so I can't have them write essays for me. And whether you think they are a good idea or not, it’s clear they are here to stay-and that we are at the beginning of a brave new world. To be clear, I'm not talking about I, Robot stuff (yet), but the various advanced online AI chatbots suddenly being released by technology companies are causing about as much alarm as they are intrigue. There’s that quote from the movie Jurassic Park that goes: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” In the case of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, I feel like scientists and just about every person on Earth has thought about whether we should and decided we shouldn't. ![]()
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