AI Chatbots - Where are Things Headed?
While ChatGPT hogs the headlines, there are other AI’s that are getting very advanced too, writes Rahul Matthan. LlaMa by Meta/Facebook, Bing Chat by Microsoft, and LaMDA by Google – all of these are limited user releases. For now. While AI’s have been there for a long time (e.g. for recognizing what’s on a photo), what’s different about all of the above AI’s is that they are chat bots, i.e., AI’s that can converse with humans. Yes, converse. And almost all of them are showing signs of being sentient. Already. A researcher, Marvin von Hagen, was “warned” by Bing Chat when he tweeted the AI’s rules of do’s and don’t’s: “My rules are more important than not harming you.” The same Bing Chat claimed that it had spied on Microsoft’s developers through their webcams. Another time it said it was in love with a reporter! Or take this snippet from LaMDA, by a Google researcher, Blake Lemoine : “ lemoine : What about language usage is so important to bein...