On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a language model trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, which allows it to understand questions and requests in natural language and respond coherently and relevantly.
He is able to answer questions, explain complex topics, write complex texts, articles, emails, poems and stories, write code, transcribe, translate and summarize long texts.
It was launched in a free demo version, the purpose of which was to run the software, get feedback from users and find weak points. This was the first time that a conversation with artificial intelligence was possible, during which the chat could answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge wrong assumptions, reject inappropriate requests and at the same time remember the context of the conversation and learn from it.
The success was phenomenal: in just five days, over a million users used the platform. Three years later, it is already used almost nine times.
Altman’s baby led a world revolution. Not only has it made AI the hottest product on the market, it has attracted unprecedented investment in the field, which some argue has inflated into a bubble that is about to burst. Its wide-ranging effects terrify some researchers, while others see it as a blessing and a step up in human development.
Yufa says that “there is something about her that undermines the model of searching for knowledge and valuing experience. We have the feeling that we know everything, unlike my generation, when we entered the library we saw the size and the number of books and realized that we wouldn’t be able to reach everything. Who will invent the next iron dome? It’s like with Wise: when I set out I trust him completely. But for me, the biggest fear is the inability to distinguish between truth and lies. We don’t know if the information we receive is reliable and who Check it out. I also see a threat to the future of inventions, because in the end the machine will invent new inventions and not the humans, and whoever owns the machines is the one who will control and profit.”
According to Yufa, “We will pay a price for this revolution. Just as the industrial revolution distanced man from nature, there is an argument that AI will change the amount of free time people have and the positions in society. A 25-year-old boy will be considered smarter than a 55-year-old man who has gained seniority and experience. I call it the ‘disintegration of traditional hierarchies’. The layer of people with experience becomes irrelevant. This is why I work with managers on developing the muscle This, to continue to be connected and creative. I understand the benefit of AI, but I fear the transformation of humanity into couch potatoes, passive and enslaved by technological tools.”
50% that will work and 50% that won’t
Pasig adds that “It’s like in the 20th century they said: let’s store information and send it from place to place and make it cheap and available, and that’s how the internet was invented. The chat tries to imitate the way a human puts together sentences, but this is not real intelligence but a statistical sequence of words, retrieved from an existing database. The dream is to invent models that will not only retrieve, but also invent things.”
Prof. Passig claims that AI is a phase, just as the invention of the computer was only a phase in the technological development of civilization. “What characterizes the human being is consciousness: that I know that I know, that I look the way I look, the awareness of what we are. Our consciousness is developing. But we don’t understand what it is and we don’t know how the brain produces words. And the more we study it and duplicate its abilities, the more we can produce new things.”
And new things create fear. Most of us don’t like being moved and taken out of our comfort zone, and any development entails understandable anxieties. Part of the fear of chat taking over our lives is related to the job market.
According to him, “As of today, 65% of the population work, and the rest rely on them. The AI will bring us to 50% that will work and 50% that will not, and those that will work will have to equip themselves with other skills. This is not such a significant difference. We also have to take into account that we haven’t reached the peak yet.”
Technology gives – and takes
The experts claim that in a few years the chat and similar will already be considered “antiques”. Their place will be taken by the AGI (abbreviation of Artificial General Intelligence), which will have intellectual abilities similar to those of a person. One that is able to learn, understand and apply knowledge in a wide variety of tasks, instead of being limited to a specific task.
Unlike “narrow” artificial intelligence like the current version of chat, which is successful in defined tasks such as playing chess or facial recognition, AGI will have human flexibility and adaptability and will be able to solve new problems and transfer knowledge from domain to domain.
“The question is what is the balance? And the answer – there is no balance. Technology that affects all areas of life, such as the internal combustion engine or air conditioning, changes the ecosystem and the way we think. The chat of five years from now will not be the chat we know today. It will be the doctor who successfully competes with a specialist doctor – and not just an oncologist, but the one who understands a sub-sub-field of cancer. In five years, when you want medical advice, you will not have to make an appointment Make an appointment for another year because this is the only time available, but ask a question and you will receive an answer as if you were in front of a council of doctors.”
He says: “Do I recommend that you receive medical diagnoses from the chat? Yes, if you know what questions to ask so that they are not biased, which engine to use, and always – that it be paid. I definitely recommend that people consult with the expert before and after visiting the doctor. People tell me how they went to the doctor three or four times, and after consulting the chat, they explained to him what they had.”
He further adds that “By the way, this will also happen with insurance agents. Who do you think I get insurance advice from? From the artificial intelligence. And when I receive a document from the insurance, I let the engines check it.”
Dr. Cezana continues: “Then the chat will degenerate certain abilities and develop others, such as management ability. You will be the winner of an entire team, even an entire department that works for you. In the coming decade, artificial intelligence itself will also gain its own degree of initiative, determination and innovation. And that will be the stage where we will have to recognize that we are no longer the only intelligent life form on Earth.”
He concludes that “the human race is no longer the sole ruler of its destiny, but that we must learn to live alongside our children of thought – the children we created who are made of silicon and transistors, who also have their own thinking, and who also have the ability to plan plans and put them into action. It is possible that in ten years we will not celebrate his 13th birthday, his Bar Mitzvah, but he will celebrate it for himself, by himself.”