It then became hostile, saying O'Brien was ugly, short, overweight, unathletic, among a long litany of other insults.Īnd, finally, it took the invective to absurd heights by comparing O'Brien to dictators like Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin.Īs a tech reporter, O'Brien knows the Bing chatbot does not have the ability to think or feel. He said a lot of work remains, and it would be a “mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now.Things took a weird turn when Associated Press technology reporter Matt O'Brien was testing out Microsoft's new Bing, the first-ever search engine powered by artificial intelligence, last month.īing's chatbot, which carries on text conversations that sound chillingly human-like, began complaining about past news coverage focusing on its tendency to spew false information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted recently that, “ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness.” “The way that it pieces together words, phrases and sentences and so forth and builds structure, for most users the wow factor is enormous,” he said.īut Dahbura issued a warning about the reliability of AI-generated information – something the innovators themselves are acknowledging. Those huge datasets train the AI engine, building connections and informing its processes. “This was pretty amazing to me,” he said.ĭahbura explained that ChatGPT and AI applications like it can take enormous volumes of text from all over the internet. The structured Bible lesson ChatGPT generated saved a couple of hours of work and even included a closing prayer. He said he’s enjoyed using ChatGPT to compose emails and even help his mother come up with a Bible lesson. “It's not going to be able to do things that just by their nature can't be done,” Dahbura said.
Microsoft reportedly plans to integrate AI advancements into Office products like email and spreadsheets.Īnd Dahbura said AI is at the core of other emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles and facial recognition.ĪI is used to attack difficult problems but, it’s “not magic dust,” he said. “There's a question of whether it's ready for primetime, whether the public understands it, understands pros and cons, risks both obvious and subtle,” Dahbura said.ĪI innovations aren’t exclusive to browsing the web. The competition between Microsoft and Google can be both good (spurring innovation) and bad (pushing out AI solutions before they’re ready). “There is a gold rush to try to make money and take AI to market,” Dahbura said. People are turning to search engines for more complex questions or tasks than they were built for. The company says there are 10 billion online searches daily and about half go unanswered. Microsoft says it is launching a new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser.
“It could be the narrative of the 21st century, in fact,” he continued. “I don't think the danger outweighs the good, but I think that there's a significant component of danger that we're going to be confronting and discussing for decades to come,” said Anton Dahbura, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy. This is an important moment in the history of AI, which has breakthrough potential said one expert.īut not without inherent risks and limitations. Pichai said AI-powered internet searches can distill complex information. Google said Bard is being opened up to trusted testers before the general public gets access in the coming weeks. Google is rolling out a conversational AI service, called “Bard.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in his own blog post this week, called AI “the most profound technology we are working on today.”
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