American billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has recently revealed that online misinformation is going to get worse as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms spread and evolve.
He disclosed that AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and the likes, despite its remarkable features, has not in any way shown to be smarter than the average human, which he stated that these technologies can contradict themselves sometimes, providing different answers when repeatedly asked the same question.
In his words,
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“Online misinformation is only going to get worse as artificial intelligence platforms evolve and spread. Right now, misinformation tends to spread through social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, and that’s with some semblance of human guardrails in place. But with ChatGPT and other similar platforms, the machines are in control.
“Once these things start taking on a life of their own, it will be difficult for us to define why and how the machine makes the decisions it makes, and who controls the machine”.
Recall that last week, giant tech company Google lost $100 billion in market value, after its new artificial intelligence (AI) technology Bard, gave a wrong answer in its first demo.
Google’s AI chatbot claimed that NASA’s James Webb space telescope took the first image of an exoplanet but was wildly wrong. The first image was reported to be taken in 2003, by the European Southern observer’s very large telescope.
This spurred employees at the company to call out Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and the leadership, following the release of its AI chatbot Bard, which they described as “rushed” and “botched”.
Mark Cuban disclosed that the error signifies that the technology is still in infantile stages which can be a problem, especially for large swaths of people who don’t always fact check claims they see on the internet.
Also, a recent Tekedia publication revealed that Google’s Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan warned against the over reliance on AI chatbots for delivering accurate information.
In an interview, he said one of the pitfalls of AI chatbots is the problem of hallucinations, which often forces the technology to provide a convincing but completely made-up answer.
No doubt, AI chatbots represent an exciting new chapter in the history of tech, but in spite of the fact that this is the case they are not without their potential dangers and issues. Researchers working across a wide range of institutions have recently highlighted an alarming potential problem that can be caused by AI such as Chat GPT, which they revealed could increase the amount of misinformation that can be seen online.
On Nov. 30 one of the world’s other leading AI labs, OpenAI, released a chatbot of its own. The program, called ChatGPT, is more advanced than any other chatbot available for public interaction, and many observers say it represents a step change in the industry.
ChatGPT’s fluency is an illusion that stems from the combination of massive amounts of data, immense computing power, and novel processing techniques. Although, the AI language model is not perfect and may sometimes produce incorrect answers.