“Generative AI should make haste slowly” FT. It’s the humans making haste
The Financial Times editorial leans in to protect humans & defend against misuse of new ai technology.
This is a new wave of technology, a Paradigm Shift in how content is created by imitating humans results. Not just limericks and novel Seinfeld scripts, but also: policy, designs, and software… that makes software, 60 years in the making, available to create brand new products and services.
The business of art and music will be changed as production costs drop by factors or 100 or 1000. Services based on knowledge, writing, checking data and reconciling data will become very low cost to the benefit of owners and hopefully customers. Supporting competition and access to the software , the algorithms and data to all, is essential for the dignity and health of humans.
Generative technology using the power of human languages is literally making incredible results today and already creating billions of dollars of value and billions more in investment as tech funds shift their bets.
This article has a link to a sheet with 450 companies focused on delivering AI to the market. There are 1000 more companies that are not disclosed at this time.
Although it is clear that ChatGPT makes errors in math, mixes up fiction with fact and confidently creates “hallucinations”, and can be used to create bullshit and misinformation, it also does things right. Its does things in novel new ways. It is a master of synthesis and “brainstorming”.
Forward thinking entrepreneurs are making the assumption that the errors will be removed and issues with intellectual property will be worked out as it has in the past with other digitizations. The stark reality is that these technique will be able to automate results for 1000s of times less cost.
The next generation willl grow up with a new computing interface that is language, bound with images, to collaborate and cooperate.
It just need to be regulated and humans must be protected from the machine and capitalists.
What will be more dangerous, ai taking peoples jobs or capitalist trying to create new monolpolies with massive power to create deep dark moats?
All large language models or as they are called, LLM’s, are created from the results of human intellectual achievements… it shoud be A Commons shared by all humans and governed fairly. No one person or company created this phenomenon. We all created it. Governments created it. World democracies should act accordingly.
“Regulators are watching this latest frenzy with bewilderment. Generative AI models can be used for many creative end purposes. But they can also pump out industrial quantities of disinformation. Not to mention the disconcerting content Microsoft’s Bing chatbot displayed in recent interactions with a New York Times columnist, professing to love him and admitting it harboured desires to hack computers and break free of its parent company’s rules. But it is hard to know how regulators could intervene even if they so desired. Technology cannot simply be uninvented.
One sensible provision contained in the EU’s AI directive is to outlaw companies that try to pass off bots as humans. It should be made clear to users whenever they interact with an AI-enabled technology. Beyond that, it is important for users to recognise generative AI models for what they are: mindless, probabilistic bots that have no intelligence, sentience or contextual understanding. They should be viewed as technological tools but should never masquerade as humans.”
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