01.23.2023 Executive Data Bytes – ChatGPT is tipping the AI scale: Which way are you leaning?
Mechie Nkengla, Ph.D.
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Welcome to another edition of Executive Data Bytes! This week, we are talking about ChatGPT, a powerful new chatbot that can communicate in plain English using an updated version of its AI system. While it’s proving to be much better than previous generations of the system, there are some pros and cons to consider.
Focus piece: “ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI”
Executive Summary
OpenAI released a new chatbot called ChatGPT, which can communicate in plain English using an updated version of its AI system. This Harvard Business Review article discusses why much better than previous generations of the system, often startlingly so.
Key Takeaways
- Despite years of hype, AI notoriously only sort of works in most applications outside of data analysis. ChatGPT, now open to everyone, has made an important transition by applying AI to the creative and expressive tasks (writing marketing copy) rather than dangerous and repetitive ones (driving a forklift).
- Human-machine hybrid work is now possible, with humans guiding AIs and correcting mistakes. This has led to increased performance of players of Go, who have learned from the AIs that mastered the sport.
- The ChatGPT language model is completely unknown, and it's possible to build each customer their own customized AI that predicts what they need, responds to them personally, and remembers all their interactions.
- The problems of AI remain very real, however, and will become more acute as these tools spread. For example, AI is very good at creating convincing-sounding nonsense, and can't explain what it does or how it does it, making the results of AI inexplicable.
Focus piece: “Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot”
Executive Summary
ChatGPT lets you type questions using natural language, and gives conversational, if somewhat stilted, answers. According to this CNET article, it's not omniscient or smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative and its answers can sound downright authoritative.
Key Takeaways
- OpenAI released ChatGPT in November to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can accomplish.
- ChatGPT's expertise is broad, and it can follow a conversation well. It suggested that being sensitive is more attractive than being tough, and that being genuine is more effective than trying to fit a certain mold.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT can give you wrong answers, but it will also warn you of its own shortcomings. For example, it explained the meaning of the phrase "the squirming facts exceed the squamous mind" to me.
- Asking a computer a question and getting an answer is useful, and often ChatGPT delivers the goods. But you should think twice before trusting the answers you get from ChatGPT, as with Google itself and other sources of information like Wikipedia.
Focus piece: “These 8 Potential Use Cases of ChatGPT will Blow Your Mind!”
Executive Summary
Open AI's ChatGPT is a chatbot that interacts naturally when talking to users in a conversational style. This AIM article takes a look at 8 potential use cases, from education tech to data structure.
Key Takeaways
- ChatGPT has become synonymous with ‘Google Killer‘. From coding neural networks to just fixing a code with a query, chatGPT can answer everything in between.
- OpenAI's chatGPT acts like a virtual cloud, and can string together cloud services to do complex tasks. It can make your funny bone tickle!
- OpenAI's model can help AI art generators generate well-detailed prompted scenarios for artistic image creation.
- ChatGPT OpenAI is likely to have a colossal impact on education tech, and homework, essays, and more, are no longer reliable ways to evaluate students.
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