We humans always think we are the coolest, the greatest, the best. Historically, this assumption is easy to refute, but that’s another story. We are great people! However, we know that the backrooms of the tech giants are boiling over. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being messed with. It might be dangerous. Someone smarter than us? Nasty. But it will be some time before the AI catches up with us.
News: Time is up. The AI here is pretty damn smart. And somehow she even managed to make the general public no longer afraid of her. AI content has been flooding my timeline lately. Everyone wants to test themselves on this artificial intelligence. Find out if she’s really that smart.
For example, you can feed the AI of the Lensa image-editing app ten photos of yourself to spit out a fantastic piece of art. Whether it’s a renaissance painting or a Freaky Alien, unlike simple filters, this AI learns the structure of a face and creates an entirely new piece of work out of it.
The ChatGTP chatbot is currently being traded as a revolutionary moment. It’s way smarter than those weird customer service bots. You can talk to him, ask him questions, to which he will answer individually and accurately. Search engines like Google, where you have to go through all the results to get an answer, are predicting the end.
You can also ask ChatGPT to write an essay on a given topic. For example, you may need a washing machine manual written in the style of Shakespeare. So the AI even has a sense of humor.
And she also has a conscience. She refuses to answer questions that go against her moral code. And she can admit her mistakes and shortcomings. Many people cannot do this.
Now I do not want to praise this AI to the skies. There are some problems associated with this: for example, you can say goodbye to data protection. AI is a product of surveillance capitalism. It should be used with caution and regulated.
Another source of problems: AI learns from what it is shown. And since our world and the knowledge in it is still often based on discriminatory content, bots are adopting our stereotypes. For example, Lensa AI imaging users report that the app consistently creates incredibly large and well-defined breasts. Artificial intelligence is not so picky about the truth.
So don’t worry, he’s not really cooler, better or better than us humans – after all, he’s descended from us.
Noah Dibbasey (21) studies social sciences at the University of Bern. She writes to Bleek every second Friday.