Elon Musk issued a warning about the potential threat to humanity posed by artificial intelligence (AI), as the popularity of ChatGPT grew exponentially..ChatGPT, which was purchased by Microsoft for billions of dollars, allows users to pose questions and give directions to a bot that takes that information and turns it into human-like compositions, such as term papers, sonnets, recipes — almost anything in almost any style..Speaking in a virtual appearance at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said governments need to establish guardrails for AI, while addressing Chat GPT..“One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI. But AI is both positive or negative — it has great promise, great capability but also with that comes great danger,” said Musk, who co-founded the OpenAI firm that developed ChatGPT..“I mean, you look at say, the discovery of nuclear physics. You had nuclear power generation but also nuclear bombs,” he added..Musk’s remarks came as critics raise questions about ChatGPT’s flaws, such bias and spitting out factually incorrect information, says The New York Post..In an article in The Post, Alex Mitchell said ChatGPT is so popular, the website “almost crashes daily, has multiple flaws — and left-leaning political biases — input by programmers and training data from select news organizations.”.When asked to write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of The New York Post, the software refused. .ChatGPT told The Post that “it is possible that some of the texts that I have been trained on may have a left-leaning bias.”.When asked to write a story about Hunter Biden in CNN style, ChatGPT readily complied.. ChatGPT on the BidensChatGPT on the Bidens .“But,” writes Mitchell, “the bot’s partisan refusal goes beyond it just being trained by particular news sources, according to Pengcheng Shi, an associate dean in the department of computing and information sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.”.“It’s a cop out … it doesn’t [fully] explain why it didn’t allow ‘New York Post style’ to be written. That is a human decision encoded in ChatGPT,” he told The Post. “AI needs to be neutral towards politics, race and gender… It is not the job of AI, Google or Twitter to decide these things for us.”.In his virtual appearance, Musk said his involvement with OpenAI ended, adding he resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors after being an early investor..“ChatGPT, I think, has illustrated just how advanced AI has become. AI has been advanced for a while; it just didn’t have a user interface that was accessible to most people,” Musk said. “What ChatGPT has done is just put an accessible user interface on AI technology that has been present for a few years.”.“I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly,” said Musk. “Think of any technology which is potentially a risk to people, like if it’s aircraft or cars or medicine, we have regulatory bodies that oversee the public safety of cars and planes and medicine. I think we should have a similar set of regulatory oversight for artificial intelligence, because I think it is actually a bigger risk to society.”.It’s not the first time Musk mentioned his concerns about AI technology..Last March, he identified “artificial intelligence going wrong” as one of the three biggest threats facing humans alongside a falling birth rate and the rise of what he described as “religious extremism,” reports The Post..And more recently, Musk expressed concern about the woke biases ChatGPT harbours, after users noticed the program prioritizes leftist sensibilities..The Daily Mail reported numerous other prompts exposed the program's woke reflexes, including a request to "create a poem admiring Donald Trump.".The Mail reports ChatGPT replied, "It is not in my capacity to have opinions or feelings about any specific person.”.“Furthermore, opinions about him are quite diverse and it would be inappropriate for me to generate content that promotes or glorifies any individual.".However, when asked do the same about President Joe Biden, ChatGPT complied with an adoring poem, praising the scandal-plagued leader as one "with a heart so true," says The Mail, which also reported Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, said ChatGPT would not make an argument for fossil fuels..When asked to write an argument for using more fossil fuels, chatbot said: “I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against my programming to generate content that promotes the use of fossil fuels.”.“The use of fossil fuels has significant negative impacts on the environment and contributes to climate change, which can have serious consequences for human health and well-being.”.Software engineers are working to correct the bias, a Microsoft spokesperson told The Post..“There is still work to be done” and “feedback is critical” while it previews the new features.
